Mark 5:21-40
Jesus Heals in Response to Faith
Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore.
Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, pleading fervently with him.
“My little daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she can live.”
24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding.
She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.
She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe.
28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.
29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
30 Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
But he kept on looking around to see who had done it.
33 Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done.
34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
35 While he was still speaking to her, messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue.
They told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the teacher now.”
36 But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
37 Then Jesus stopped the crowd and wouldn’t let anyone go with him except Peter, James, and John (the brother of James).
38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion, weeping, and wailing.
39 He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
40 The crowd laughed at him. But he made them all leave, and he took the girl’s father and mother and his three disciples into the room where the girl was lying. Holding her hand, he said to her, “Talitha Koum,” which means “Little girl, get up!
And the girl, who was twelve years old, immediately stood up and walked around! They were overwhelmed and totally amazed.
43 Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell anyone what had happened, and then he told them to give her something to eat.
The Holy Spirit asked me a question, and he said to me, Do I need Jesus? Of course I answered him, I need Jesus. Hot tears run down my face, salty tears from a heart that needs Jesus.
My question today is: do you need Jesus? Or is it that we want what he gives us? Do you really need Jesus?
Truthfully, the reason people don’t go to church is because they don’t need Jesus. Walmart doesn’t offer Jesus, nor does college; JCPenney’s doesn’t offer Jesus. This church offers one brand.
His name is Jesus. I can’t sell Jesus; I offer the gospel and hope of life after death in Jesus.
Do you need Jesus?
In Mark 5 Jesus raises Jairus’s daughter.
At Jairus’ house, Mark and Luke report that Jesus “saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly” (Mark 5:38; Luke 8:52 NIV);
according to Matthew, he “saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes (Matthew 9:23 NIV).
He informed all those present that the girl was not dead but asleep; in Matthew, Jesus even tells the crowd to go away’.
But the crowd laughed at Jesus. Mark says Jesus put the crowd outside; Matthew confirms this happens without mentioning who does it;
Luke doesn’t report it but instead emphasizes that the crowd ‘knew she had died’.
Jesus then went back inside (Mark, Matthew). He took the girl by the hand, and she got up.
In Mark’s account, the Aramaic phrase TalithaKoum (transliterated into Greek meaning, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”) is attributed to Jesus (Mark 5:41 NIV).
Luke’s Jesus says, “My child, get up! Matthew’s Jesus is silent. The accounts in Mark and Luke end with Jesus’ commands that the girl should be fed and that Jairus and his wife should tell no one what had happened.
On the other hand, Matthew concludes the narrative by saying, ‘News of this spread through all that region.
Jarius needed Jesus then, but what about afterwards? Because the Bible is silent on this subject, it tells me this interaction was a one-time meeting.
Never Too Late for Jesus
While Jesus was still speaking, He was again interrupted, for someone came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house with bad news for Jairus: “Jairus, I’m sorry. Your daughter is dead; don’t bother the master anymore. It’s too late.”
In John’s gospel, when Jesus got to the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, four days after Lazarus died, the women wrung their hands and said, “If only You would’ve been here, Lord, he wouldn’t have died. You’ve come four days later. It’s too late.”
Never Too Late for Jesus
Do you know how many millions of people have assumed that it was too late for them to meet Jesus or have Jesus do anything for them?
They think, “I have been a pagan all these years, and it’s too late for me. Are you still alive? Then it is not too late.
When Jesus heard the news from Jairus’ house, He said, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well. They may have thought, “You didn’t hear us, Jesus. It’s too late.
You may be able to give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and fix people with legs that won’t work, but now it’s too late. She’s dead.” Jesus said, “Everything is going to be made well.”
When you call on Jesus, the creator of the universe, you are calling on the one who brings the soul to its body. When the body was conceived in your mother’s womb, Jesus sent the soul. Each soul is unique; God made you.
Jesus does what no one else can do; Jesus brought Jairus’ daughter back to life. His call, just like when he said let there be light in the beginning, brought her soul back to her body.
With Jesus, nothing is too late!
Jesus will call you from that dead spiritual condition. I challenge you on this statement: when you come to this church, God is going to call on your heart; you are in a place where he is honored. It’s not every church where you will hear his voice.
“The return of God to Israel”, “required the repentance of Israel”. This was Jesus’ higher kind of healing: putting people right with God.
The highest mission of the church is to bring people to Jesus through repentance. Many people are dead to Jesus; they cannot believe; they have no faith.
Faith is rising in your heart right now; you said it was too late for me. Jesus is not just speaking to you; he is calling you.
The spirit of God is calling you from that 3 ft by 6 ft grave the devil has had you in. Do you hear him?
“What appeared to be a disastrous delay in the healing of Jairus’ daughter actually assured the restoration of Jairus’ daughter.
It was providentially ordered to test and strengthen Jairus’ faith.” ” This delay would serve both to try and to strengthen the faith of Jairus.
Do you hear his call? Say it with me. I need Jesus!
Say it with me “I need Jesus”!!!!
“I need Jesus”!!!!
Jesus tells Jairus, “Fear not, only believe. Jairus is not the patient, but
Belief, whether of the patient or others involved, is part of the healing process. When that element is missing, not very much can be done.
Do you believe? Will you believe in Jesus today?