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Mark 5:21-43 is Wednesday’s reading. Here are a couple of thoughts on this passage:
1.) Tim Keller says that Jairus and the unnamed woman in this passage teach us;
“If you go to Jesus, he may ask of you far more than you originally planned to give, but he can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.”
2.) Charles Campbell points out that Mark weaves the root word, sozo, throughout this text in an “intriguing” way. In verse 23 Jairus begs Jesus to come and lay his hands on his dying daughter so that she may be sothe (NIV – “healed”) and live. According to verse 28 the bleeding woman sneaks up on Jesus to try to touch his robe so that she may be sothesomai (NIV – “healed”) and live. And verse 34 reports that Jesus tells the healed woman that her faith has sesoken (NIV – “healed”) her. Yet this is the same word the New Testament often uses with salvivific overtones. So is something more than physical healing at work here? Is Jairus pleading for even more than his daughter’s physical rescue? Does the woman somehow experience some kind of salvation here?
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