Tuesday, 2/5/13
It is good for us to follow Jesus through that full morning
in Capernaum. He had been speaking to a large crowd when Jairus came up to him
with a request about his daughter. If you or I had a crowd listening to our
every word we would have told Jairus, “Hey, can’t you see I’m busy?”
The woman with the flow of blood was ritually unclean, and
that would have made anyone she touched unclean, but she saw Jesus as being
such a power for good that she thought if she just touched his clothing she
would be healed.
And, of course she was healed. St. Mark had his own way of
telling this story. He said, “She felt in her body that she was healed of her
affliction.” And then he wrote, “Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out
from him.”
It is nice the way he told the woman that her own faith had
saved her. When he arrived at the home of Jairus he found the crowd making a
commotion. People had a custom of
making noise to scare the demons away from snatching the soul that was coming
out of a person.
We have another touch that was typical of St. Mark. He
recorded the exact words of Jesus to the child. Hw said, “Talitha” or “little girl” “koum”
or, “Get up.”
Then he said, “Give her something to eat.”
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