1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,100 Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast and 2 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:16,700 we're going to have a look at today's Gospel reading for mess. 3 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:20,200 It's a fairly long one today. So we're going to jump straight 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,400 into its Mark chapter 5 verses 21 to 43. 5 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:30,700 When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large 6 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:33,900 crowd, followed round him, and he stayed by the Lakeside. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,500 Then one of the synagogue officials came up, gyrus by name 8 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:42,600 and seeing him fell at his feet and pleaded with him. 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,700 Earnestly saying, my little daughter is desperately, sick, 10 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:51,200 do come and lay your hands on her to make her feel better and 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,400 save her life. Jesus went with him and a large 12 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,700 crowd, followed him, they were pressing all around him. 13 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,800 Now, there was a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,300 twelve years. After long and painful treatment 15 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:10,300 under various doctors, she spent all she had without being any, 16 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,600 the better for it. In fact, she was getting worse. 17 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:17,600 She had heard about Jesus and she came up behind him through 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,400 the crowd and touched his cloak. If I can touch, even his 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,300 clothes. She had told herself, I shall be 20 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,900 well again. And the source of the bleeding 21 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:32,500 dried up instantly and she felt in herself that she was cured of 22 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:36,800 her complaint. Immediately aware that power had 23 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,800 gone out from him. Jesus turned around in the crowd 24 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,400 and said, who touched my clothes. 25 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:46,000 His disciples said to him, you see how the crowd is pressing 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,300 around you and yet you say who touched me but he continued to 27 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:52,400 look all round to see who had done it. 28 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,600 Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because 29 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,500 she knew what had happened to her and she fell at his feet and 30 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,400 told him the whole truth. My daughter. 31 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,900 He said your faith has restored you to health, go in peace and 32 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,800 be free from your complaint. While he was still speaking. 33 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:16,000 Some people arrived from the house of the synagogue, official 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,600 to say your daughter is dead? Why put the master to any 35 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,900 further trouble? But Jesus had overheard this 36 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:28,300 remark of theirs and he said, to the official do not be afraid. 37 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:32,300 Only have faith. And he led no one to go with him 38 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:35,700 except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 39 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,100 So they came to the officials house and Jesus noticed all the 40 00:02:40,108 --> 00:02:43,000 commotion with people weeping and wailing. 41 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,700 Unrestrainedly. He went in and said to them. 42 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,300 Why all this commotion and crying? 43 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,100 The child is not dead, but asleep. 44 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:57,300 But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and 45 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:00,300 taking with him the child's father and mother and his own 46 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,800 companions. He went into the place where the 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,900 child lay. And taking the child by the 48 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:10,100 hand. He said to her talitha koum. 49 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,600 Which means little girl, I tell you to get up. 50 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,700 The little girl got up at once and began to walk about. 51 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,800 For she was 12 years old at this. 52 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,900 They were overcome with astonishment and he ordered them 53 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:28,600 strictly not to tell anyone about it. 54 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,300 And told them to give her something to eat. 55 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,100 So there's a lot going on in this passage here that we're 56 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:40,300 looking at today. You've probably noticed that 57 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,000 this is another example of a mark and the sandwich as 58 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,100 Scholars call it where he starts a story then he interrupts it 59 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:50,100 with a second story and then he resumes telling the first story 60 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:55,000 again and Mark does that because he's roughly chronological, he's 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,800 telling us the order in which these things actually happened. 62 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:01,100 Where is perhaps the other gospel writers like Matthew? 63 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,400 And John might not interrupt your story. 64 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,400 They would probably keep telling the entire story, even if there 65 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,600 was interruptions in how it actually happened because they 66 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,500 want to present it in a thematic way. 67 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Mark, just tells it like it is this happened and then Jesus was 68 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,399 interrupted and then Jesus went back to what he was doing. 69 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:23,300 So verse 21 is the start here at said, Jesus crossed in the boat 70 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:26,900 to the other side. So remember yesterday he was in 71 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:29,900 this territory. A of the gaderenes in the 72 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,100 Gentile area but they told him to go away. 73 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,900 So he's got back into his boat and he's gone back over to the 74 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:37,200 western shore of the Sea of Galilee. 75 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,500 So he's back in the Capernaum area where he started the crowds 76 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:44,300 gather around him here at the lakeside and he's probably 77 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:48,200 teaching them. And then in verse 22, One of the 78 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,100 synagogue officials appears or another translation, says, ruler 79 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:55,400 of the synagogue. Now, this is not a priest. 80 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,400 So a synagogue official was a prominent lay man. 81 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,100 Whose job it was to oversee, the synagogue's activities and 82 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:07,500 finances. So perhaps an equivalent today 83 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,800 he might be the president or the treasurer of the parish. 84 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,200 Pastoral Council. That's a bit of a rough analogy. 85 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,000 But he sort of the administrative leader of one of 86 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,800 the local synagogues. Now he was probably present 87 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,400 earlier on in the gospel of Mark when Jesus had been preaching in 88 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,200 the synagogue's, he's probably seen Jesus do that in his own 89 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:33,000 synagogue so he knows who Jesus is seeing him, he fell at Jesus 90 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,300 feet so gyrus starts to plead with Jesus here he says my 91 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:40,500 little daughter is desperately sick. 92 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,100 That's our translation, a more literal translation is at the 93 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:46,500 point of death. So this girl is about to die 94 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:49,400 which sadly was quite common in that culture. 95 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,700 A lot of diseases couldn't be cured, that we now have cures 96 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:55,700 for so people did die young sometimes. 97 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,500 He said he keeps going. He says to Jesus come and lay 98 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:04,900 your hands on her to make her better and save her life. 99 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:09,100 So gyrus knows that Jesus has laid hands on other people and 100 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,200 he wants Jesus to. Now do it for his daughter. 101 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,300 That makes sense. So, Jesus agrees to do this and 102 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,100 they set off for the house, we don't know what town it is, but 103 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:20,000 probably Capernaum. So, they set off to find his 104 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,700 actual house. A large crowd, followed Jesus, 105 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:25,900 they were pressing all around him, so often in pictures, you 106 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:28,200 might see it as like a meek and Mild crowd listening. 107 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,500 Quietly and humbly to Jesus. But here we have a crowd that's 108 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:36,300 jostling. And I'm busy and pushing against 109 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,800 Jesus as he goes to the house, they're desperate to touch 110 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,900 Jesus. Now that seen ships. 111 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:46,000 So, Mark gives us the second part of his sandwich here. 112 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,700 He interrupts the story of gyrus as daughter, verse 25. 113 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,000 Now, there was a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for 114 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,100 twelve years. So what the Greek there says she 115 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:03,500 suffered from a flow of blood? Some Scholars, it's not entirely 116 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:07,500 clear but some Scholars think it's likely that because the 117 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,200 disease is not described, explicitly that Mark is just 118 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,000 trying to be modest. And really what this is, is some 119 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,600 sort of a menstrual cycle issue. We know that chronic bleeding 120 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,500 results in weakness, and fatigue. 121 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:25,700 So she's probably exhausted, and think about all the ritual 122 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:27,900 components here. So, someone who's bleeding 123 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,900 constantly, according to the Jewish law of Moses, She's 124 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:36,300 unclean constantly so anything. She touches becomes unclean 125 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,400 anything, she sits on becomes unclean. 126 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:42,700 Everyone else has to avoid contact with her or else they 127 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,200 would become unclean as well. And that's all in The Vedic has 128 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,700 15. So this woman is in Outcast and 129 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,800 Society, she's forbidden from worshiping in the temple, which 130 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,600 would be incredibly frustrating and sad for a Jewish person. 131 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,100 And it's possible that she also couldn't be physically with her 132 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:03,200 husband as well depending on her condition. 133 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,700 She we learn here that she's tried numerous doctors, none of 134 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,600 them have been able to help. In fact, she's just getting 135 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,600 worse, so she's getting desperate. 136 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,000 This woman has had the condition for 12 years. 137 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,500 She's been ritually unclean and exhausted and tired. 138 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:19,000 And she's getting worse and worse. 139 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,800 She spent all her money on doctors. 140 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,600 So not only is she an outcast? She's probably poor as well. 141 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:29,500 Verse 27, she had heard about Jesus. 142 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:33,200 So the word has traveled and she's heard about his power to 143 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,299 heal, simply by touching him. She's probably heard things like 144 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,100 Jesus. Lays hands on people and they're 145 00:08:39,100 --> 00:08:40,299 healed. That's probably what she's 146 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:42,900 heard. So she has a plan, she comes up 147 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:46,100 behind him in the crowd. She's making a plan here of how 148 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,800 she's going to touch Jesus, and she says to herself in verse 27, 149 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,400 if I can touch even his clothes, I should be well again. 150 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:58,800 Now she's probably just guessing if that's, you know, she's 151 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,600 probably thinking if I touch his clothes and I'll get better, 152 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,400 that's probably just a guess on her part. 153 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,200 Because as far as we know this hasn't happened to anyone else, 154 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,100 yet, turns out that she's right though, that that will actually 155 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:16,700 heal her. So she touches him and there's a 156 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:21,100 really beautiful picture of this this scene where the woman just 157 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:26,100 touches the Hem of His Garment and the Each other artistic 158 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:31,000 picture is just of the finger reaching out and touching Jesus 159 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,800 legs. You can't see anyone's face in 160 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,300 the picture and it's there's a really big picture of this 161 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,900 Saint, Mary of magdala, has Church in magdala. 162 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,400 So they've found Magdalene and there's this whole church 163 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,700 dedicated to women and this is in Israel. 164 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:51,000 So if you go there, there's a chamber down the bottom of the 165 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,900 church. I've been there and there's this 166 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:58,200 amazing huge wall length. Picture of this woman touching 167 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,600 Jesus and it's considered to be a room of healing. 168 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:03,700 So anyway, if you can Google that picture, it's quite a 169 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:05,900 beautiful. One of the woman touching Jesus 170 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:12,800 cloak So immediately sorry verse 29, the source of her bleeding 171 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,400 dried up instantly and she felt that she was cured of her 172 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,500 complaint. Now, this is one of the key 173 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:22,400 verses that helps us understand the Catholic teaching on relics. 174 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:25,900 So, the Catholic teaching is basically that objects which 175 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:31,500 belong to Holy people or healers can themselves and up imparting 176 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:34,500 healing power. This is one of the key verses. 177 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,700 So, here we have a woman touching Jesus, cloak, not Jesus 178 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:39,800 himself, but she still gets healed. 179 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,700 And then later in the book of Acts, there's places where 180 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:45,500 Peters handkerchief is able to heal people. 181 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:48,900 And then, even in the Old Testament, Falling on the bones 182 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,400 of the Prophet, Elijah causes someone to be healed as well. 183 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,800 So this is one of those key verses about relics. 184 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,900 Verse 30, so she's healed but then immediately aware that 185 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,800 power had gone out of him. So Jesus notices that power has 186 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,500 gone out of him. Kind of strange isn't it? 187 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:10,600 So it is Jesus sort of feels some power leave him even though 188 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,300 he didn't consent to it. So this implies that power can 189 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:17,700 leave Jesus without his consent at least sometimes. 190 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,800 So what's the formula for healing here? 191 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,200 I think we have to say something like this, a person's genuine 192 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,900 Faith plus contact with Jesus. Jesus brings about healing even 193 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,900 if Jesus doesn't initiate the contact at least during Jesus 194 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:37,600 ministry. Anyway, He says he looks around 195 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,500 to the crowd, and Jesus says, who touched my clothes? 196 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,800 So, at this point, Jesus is not exercising, his mind-reading 197 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,200 powers. If you wanted to, he probably 198 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,300 could switch them on as we've seen him to earlier in Mark and 199 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:52,400 work out who it was, but he wants the person to come forward 200 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,300 voluntarily. He wants the person to not slip 201 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:00,200 away with just physical healing. He wants this person who's just 202 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,200 been healed to encounter Jesus personally. 203 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,300 He's Disciples of surprised by Jesus question and they 204 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:09,900 basically say, everyone's touching you Jesus. 205 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,800 What do you mean? Who touched me? 206 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,300 So the apostles are pretty perplexed and as they are 207 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,800 throughout a lot of the Gospel of Mark, they still have a lot 208 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,200 to learn. Verse 32, the woman came forth, 209 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,000 frightened and trembling. So she's probably worried that 210 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,600 Jesus is going to be angry with her because she's just taken 211 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,100 some of his power. And also she's broken the rules 212 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:36,100 of ritual impurity in Purity. She touched him, and she's not 213 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,900 supposed to. And so, she's probably quite 214 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:40,900 frightened about what Jesus is going to say. 215 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,100 But verse 34. Jesus lovingly says my daughter, 216 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:50,000 that's a term of affection. And intimacy my your faith has 217 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 made you. Well, So this tells us, what was 218 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 the key ingredient in the woman's healing. 219 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,600 It was her faith. The woman's Faith made her. 220 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,800 Well, so presumably this tells us that insufficient faith. 221 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,300 If someone with not enough Faith, try to touch Jesus. 222 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:10,200 They wouldn't be healed. For example, a lot of the crowd 223 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,900 at the moment of jostling against Jesus, presumably people 224 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:16,200 they're wanting healing, but probably none of them were 225 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,700 healed because they didn't have the genuine faith. 226 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:22,700 That this woman had, And the word here for made you. 227 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:25,900 Well, can also mean saved. So you could translate this 228 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:30,100 verse, your faith has saved you. And Jesus often says things like 229 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:32,400 this to people who are seeking healing, he wants to make sure 230 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,400 the physical and the spiritual healing happen at the same time. 231 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:40,700 He says to the woman go in peace and be free of your complaint. 232 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,400 So Jesus here basically says he's okay with what's happened? 233 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,600 He's not angry at the woman and he gives her the traditional 234 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,400 Jewish piece wishing. It's quite common for Jews to 235 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,000 say, go in peace. And that's what we say, the end 236 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,500 of mass as well. And she's now think about it. 237 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,300 She's had this condition for 12 years. 238 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:02,200 She is now healed physically and now she can go back to 239 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,200 participating in the life of the temple and she's able to go and 240 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,100 contact with people again. So she's been restored to the 241 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:10,900 community. It's in quote, incredible 242 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:17,500 transformation for this woman. Verse 35, we go back to the 243 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:19,000 incident with gyrus his daughter. 244 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,600 So it's the last part of the mark and the sandwich. 245 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:26,100 He's just here with the woman and now some people arrived from 246 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:28,100 the rulers house from gyrus is house. 247 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:31,300 So they're going to deliver the bad news to gyrus your daughter 248 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,900 is dead. Why put your master to any 249 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:36,900 further trouble? So they believe she's dead. 250 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:39,200 There's no need for Jesus to come anymore. 251 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:45,900 Verse 36 Jesus over. Here's what his servants have 252 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:50,000 said to gyrus and he says to gyrus do not be afraid only have 253 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,400 faith. So Jesus here implies that it's 254 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,600 not over and that he's going to fix the problem. 255 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:00,300 Whether gyrus understood that or believed it is not clear. 256 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,700 So, Jesus now makes a plan of attack. 257 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,700 He allows no one to follow him, so he sends the crowd away at 258 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:12,900 this point, why? Well, could be two reasons 259 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:15,600 firstly, because not everyone can fit into this house that 260 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,700 he's going to could also be that he wants some peace and quiet in 261 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:21,000 order to be able to do the miracle. 262 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:25,300 But most importantly, in the context of Mark's gospel, In 263 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,900 order for a miracle like this, particularly significant 264 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:29,700 Miracle, like a raising from the dead. 265 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,700 Jesus tells us that he can't do that. 266 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:35,000 If the people in the area, do not have faith. 267 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,100 So it's possible that Jesus perceives. 268 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:39,900 The crowd does not have enough faith and that if he tries to do 269 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:42,200 the miracle with the crowd around, it's not going to work. 270 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:48,000 So, he sends the crowd away. And he takes with him though, 271 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,600 Peter and James and John. So these three Apostles of Jesus 272 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,700 Inner Circle, and it appears that these three, although they 273 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:57,500 make mistakes, they seem to understand things a little 274 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,100 quicker or a little easier than the other apostles. 275 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,900 And they're the first three in fact, three of the first four 276 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,600 who are willing to step out in faith for the kingdom, they're 277 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,000 the first three of the first four Apostles to be called. 278 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,600 So they arrived at the house of gyrus and they're going side, 279 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,100 and people are Weeping and wailing loudly. 280 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,200 Now, that might seem a bit, maybe a bit over the top, but in 281 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,500 that culture, the way that people mourned, the loss of 282 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:30,100 loved ones was through loud groans and wailing, that was 283 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:34,000 actually the accepted expected way of reacting. 284 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,600 There might even be hired mourners here if someone's died. 285 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:41,200 The family would often hire professional mourners. 286 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,400 So that the community knows this house is morning. 287 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:47,000 So, everyone's weeping and wailing. 288 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:53,000 And Jesus says, the child is dead. 289 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:57,200 Sorry, the child is not dead but asleep. 290 00:16:58,300 --> 00:16:59,800 Now, there's two possible meanings here. 291 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,900 The child is not dead, but asleep. 292 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:06,900 The first option would be that actually their child is not 293 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:09,099 dead. She's fallen into a coma of some 294 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:13,200 sort, although, the relatives don't realize that Jesus knows 295 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,700 that she's not dead and that she's just in a coma, but the 296 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:20,500 family doesn't know that. But I think it's reasonable 297 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,400 depends. If you think it's reasonable for 298 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,500 the family to know, whether she is dead or not, the more 299 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,800 traditional explanation and most Scholars would say is that, the 300 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,600 girl really is dead. So, when Jesus says, the child 301 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,700 is not dead, he really means she's not dead permanently. 302 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:43,300 She's just sleeping and sleeping is a common Jewish metaphor to 303 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:48,200 describe death, particularly in relation to the afterlife. 304 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:51,500 If so, in the Jewish or Christian view, you could say, 305 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:55,900 in a sense, when people's bodies die, they fall asleep in the 306 00:17:55,900 --> 00:18:00,400 hope of the Resurrection. But if that's the case, if the 307 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,600 girl really is dead, it seems unreasonable for Jesus to say to 308 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,000 the to the mourners. Why are you mourning? 309 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,500 The child is not dead. Because there's no way that the 310 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:18,300 that relatives could have known that Jesus was going to raise 311 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:20,900 her again. There's that's not yeah. 312 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:22,300 So it depends on how you interpret. 313 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:25,500 Jesus words here as I said the traditional explanation is that 314 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,700 she's dead but the Jesus just wants to make a point that she's 315 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:32,200 not permanently dead. But it's often good to throw out 316 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,500 there some rival, scholarly theories. 317 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:38,600 Just so you know what people are thinking about this verse where 318 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,800 it's not entirely clear. Verse 40, they laughed at him so 319 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,100 that's their reaction. They don't believe the little 320 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,800 girls going to rise again. So that probably shows a lack of 321 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,400 faith and they think Jesus is a bit crazy. 322 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:55,000 So he turns them all out. Jesus doesn't want the crowd or 323 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,300 the relatives to be around while he's performing the miracle, and 324 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:00,900 he probably knows that their unbelief is going to Hinder the 325 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:03,700 miracle. So takes with him the child's 326 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,200 mother and father. So gyrus and his wife. 327 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:08,300 What is he? Taking the mother and the 328 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,000 father? Presumably they well, maybe they 329 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,800 have more faith than the rest of the relatives because member 330 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,800 gyrus did come to chooses, and believe that Jesus could heal 331 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,900 her. And it's also for practical 332 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:24,200 reasons because the girls about to wake up and Jesus wants the 333 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,200 mother and the father to be in the room when the girl wakes up, 334 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Verse 41, Jesus Takes the Girl by the hand. 335 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,300 So once again, Mark is highlighting the power of Jesus 336 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:42,800 physical touch and he says to her talitha koum Which means 337 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,700 little girl, get up. So, Mark actually includes the 338 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:50,900 the Aramaic phrase, Jesus spoke Aramaic to Letha come, why does 339 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,500 Mark sort of in this case? Usually, he just translates the 340 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:57,700 entire thing for us into Greek. But here he gives us the 341 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:02,600 original Aramaic and then the Greek translation Probably for 342 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,200 dramatic, emphasis, the original words in marks, mind, we're so 343 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,600 important and they left had left such an impact on the original 344 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,000 hearers that Mark wants to include the original Aramaic 345 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,600 here. So that those who needs 346 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,000 audience, who do speak Aramaic Can Feel Jesus emphasis here and 347 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,400 can hear the original words that Jesus spoke verse 42. 348 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,400 The girl got up at once and walked so the girl is perfectly 349 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:34,000 fine straight away and the word that Used here for a rise or got 350 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,300 up is a gay Row in Greek and that's actually the same word 351 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:40,600 that's later used for Jesus. Resurrection. 352 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,200 And then Mark says she got up at once and walked for she was 12 353 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,900 years old. So it implies that the reason 354 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:57,500 she gets healed so quickly is because she's young Now we learn 355 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:00,100 here that she's 12 years old. Where else have we heard the 356 00:21:00,108 --> 00:21:06,800 number 12 in this passage today. Hopefully you recognize that the 357 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,900 woman with the issue of blood has had the issue for 12 years. 358 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,300 So there could be some sort of connection here between the 12 359 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:17,200 years that the woman had the condition and the 12 years old, 360 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,500 that the girl is there probably is, although it's not entirely 361 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:24,800 clear what the connection is. And some Scholars have written 362 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,600 about it but no one's really sure. 363 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:30,700 They were overcome with astonishment. 364 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:32,800 This is Jesus, most amazing Miracle yet. 365 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,500 He's literally just cause someone to rise again, from the 366 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,600 dead. And in the Jewish view, the only 367 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,200 person who can do that is God and the people there would have 368 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,700 known that only God can raise the dead. 369 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,800 So the probably means that as a result, they would have now have 370 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:53,600 faith in Jesus. However, verse 43, Jesus ordered 371 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,700 them strictly, not to let anyone know about it. 372 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:02,000 So Jesus wants to ensure that the only people who witnessed 373 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,400 the miracle know about it. No one else. 374 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:06,400 He doesn't want word to get around that. 375 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,000 He can raise the dead at this stage because if he does, his 376 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,200 ministry is going to get too chaotic, too quickly. 377 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,300 Everyone's going to crowd around. 378 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:15,600 Everyone's going to want him to, to raise again. 379 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,300 Every dead person, they might recognize that he's the Messiah 380 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:22,900 to quickly and try to take him as a national King, all of those 381 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:26,200 things could happen if word gets around too quickly. 382 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,500 So Jesus says, please don't share What has happened today? 383 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,700 And then he tells his the girl's parents gyrus and his wife to 384 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:39,000 give her something to eat, presumably that's to help 385 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,700 restore the girls energy. Jesus knows that she's going to 386 00:22:42,708 --> 00:22:48,600 need energy in order to get back to full health possibly So 387 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,800 that's the end of the passage and I just want to read this 388 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,500 little comment from the Catholic commentary and sake of 389 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,400 scripture, which summarizes this section really well, we've just 390 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,300 seen a whole lot of Jesus miracles over the last few days. 391 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,500 And here's how the Catholic Commons run. 392 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:09,300 Sacred scripture summarizes, Mark chapter 5, the raising of 393 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:13,300 gyrus is daughter is the climax of the series of Miracles 394 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:17,700 encountered in this section of Mark, Mark chapter 4 and 5. 395 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:22,400 Each one increasingly reveals Jesus power to overcome death. 396 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,900 He has rescued his disciples from near certain death in the 397 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:27,900 storm. On the lake delivered. 398 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:31,000 A man whose existence was a living death, among the tombs 399 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:35,100 restored to health, a woman whose life was draining away and 400 00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:39,100 raised a dead girl to life. In each case, the way to 401 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:43,800 experience Jesus saving power is to reject fear and yield to 402 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,700 Faith a deeply personal faith that comes into Living contact 403 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:50,700 with him. Mark is preparing his readers to 404 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:54,300 grasp the magnitude of Jesus. Ultimate conquest of death. 405 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:57,900 In his resurrection, the Prelude to the resurrection of all 406 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:05,900 believers to eternal life, Now, how does this passage inform 407 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:07,600 Catholic teaching? Well, let's turn to the 408 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,300 catechism of the Catholic Church. 409 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,000 There's a few short paragraphs will have a look at here, which 410 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,800 explicitly reference the story of gyrus. 411 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,400 And also the story of the woman with the issue of blood 412 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:21,700 paragraph, 548 in the section about the kingdom of God. 413 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,100 Says, the signs worked by Jesus, a test that the father has sent 414 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:29,400 him. They invite belief in him to 415 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,800 those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask. 416 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:37,500 So Miracles, strengthen faith in the one who does his father's 417 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:39,900 Works? They bear witness that he is the 418 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:45,500 son of God. Paragraph 2616 in the section 419 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,600 about how Jesus he is our prayer. 420 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:52,400 Says prayer to Jesus is answered by him already during his 421 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,700 ministry through signs. That anticipate the power of his 422 00:24:55,700 --> 00:25:00,500 death and Resurrection Jesus, he is the prayer of faith expressed 423 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:05,100 in words, from the leper gyrus, the Canaanite woman and the good 424 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:09,600 thief or in Silence. The bearers of the paralytic, 425 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,900 the woman with the Hemorrhage who touches his clothes, the 426 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:15,000 tears and ointment of the sinful woman. 427 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,200 So you'll hear there in that paragraph, 2616 at references, 428 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,500 both gyrus and also the woman with the hemorrhage And then, 429 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:29,600 lastly, in paragraph 9 94, which is in the section about Jesus, 430 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,300 resurrection it says it is Jesus himself who on the last day will 431 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,400 raise up. Those who have believed in him, 432 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,100 who have eaten his body and drink his blood already. 433 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,100 Now, in this present life, he gives us a sign and pledge of 434 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,300 this by restoring, some of the Dead to life. 435 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,900 And now it's sitting there by his own Resurrection, though, it 436 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:55,800 was to be of another order. So, you'll hear the reference to 437 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,800 Jesus restoring, some people to life, and that would include 438 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,700 Jarvis's daughter. And all of that prefigures, 439 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:08,000 Jesus, own Resurrection. So a bit of a longer podcast 440 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,700 today but there's a lot in this Mark and Sand Wedge in Mark. 441 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:14,100 Chapter 5, thanks for listening. Hope you learned something new.