Opening Biblical Meditation
While Jesus was by the lakeside, the president of one of the dynagogues came up, Jairus by name, and, when he saw him, threw himself down at his feet and pleaded with him. “My little daughter”, he said, “is at death's door. 1 beg you to come and lay your hands on her to cure her and save her li...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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International review of mission
Year: 2006, Volume: 95, Issue: 376/377, Pages: 151-153 |
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| Summary: | While Jesus was by the lakeside, the president of one of the dynagogues came up, Jairus by name, and, when he saw him, threw himself down at his feet and pleaded with him. “My little daughter”, he said, “is at death's door. 1 beg you to come and lay your hands on her to cure her and save her life.” So Jesus went with him, accompanied by a great crowd which passed upon him. Among them wad a woman who had suffered from haemorrhages for twelve years; and in spite of long treatment by many doctors, on which she had spent all she had, there had been no improvement; on the contrary, she had grown worse. She had heard what people were saying about Jesus, do she came up from behind in the back of the crowd and touched his cloak; for she said to herself, “If I touch even his clothes, I shall be cured.” And there and then the source of her haemorrhages dried up and she knew in herself that she wad cured of her trouble. At the same time Jesus, aware that power had gone out of him, turned round in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing upon you and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?” Meanwhile he wad looking round to see who had done it. The woman, trembling with fear when she grasped what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and told him the whole truth. He said to her, “My daughter, your faith had cured you, Go in peace, free for ever from this trouble.” While he wad still speaking, a message came from the president's house, “Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Rabbi further?” But Jesus, overhearing the message as it was delivered, said to the president of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only have faith.” After this he allowed no one to accompany him except Peter and James and James's brother John. They came to the predident's house, where they found a great commotion, with loud crying and wailing. So Jesus went in and said to them,“Why this crying and commotion? The child id not dead: she is asleep”: but they only laughed at him. After turning all the others out, he took the child'd father and mother and his own companions and went in where the child was lying. Then, taking hold of her hand, he said to her, “Talitha cum”, which means, ‘Get up, my child’. Immediately the girl got up and walked about-she was twelve years old - at that they were beside them-selves with amazement. He gave them strict orders to let no one hear about it, and told them to give her something to eat. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-6631.2006.tb00550.x |
