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Intro—The Amazing Power of Jesus
Paraphrase — series of narratives to demonstrate the immense power of Jesus
Wind and Waves Obey (4.35-41)
Creation (cf. )
Sea imagery of Baal and Marduk (see Reading)
Jesus doesn’t defeat the sea monster; he controls it.
He isn’t just powerful to defeat it, but has authority over it.
Casting out Legion
Casting out Legion (5.1-20)
War against the demons (NOTE: Jesus doesn’t just command one demon, but armies of demons)
BODY
Context (5:21-24a)
Synagogue leader, Jairus.
What would Jairus have done before coming to Jesus?
Most of the synagogue leaders and the belonged to the sect of Judaism called the Pharisees, who all over the book of Mark are denying Jesus.
How weird is it for Jairus to come to Jesus, then?
… had endured much under
The bleeding woman is healed
Mark puts this narrative on hold to tell a different story and then comes back to it.
He does this for a reason.
He wants to demonstrate that…
Faith saves (5.24b-34)
…and we will see by the end of the story in Jairus has this ‘faith’ that saves.
[EXPLAIN]
5:26-34
Your faith has saved you
From what?
Key = “Go in peace.”
“Shalom” = peace with God.
Sin destroys shalom.
In other narratives, Jesus forgives sin when he heals.
It’s the same scenario with different words.
RESULT: Daughter = adoption
Role of faith/belief
It’s those who believe in Jesus that belong to Jesus.
God isn’t just saving people because he loves people; He is saving people who want to be with Him.
“Go in peace and be healed from your affliction.”
Discuss the significance of coming to faith for temporal needs, but then also moving to hold eternal things in greater value.
In the next part of the narrative we will see that not only does faith save, but…
Faith saves from death
Return to the story of Jairus and his daughter.
The difference between death (more often a figure for hell in the NT) and sleep (figure for physical death).
Death was permanent, but not the end for the Israelites.
Paul utilized the same language of sleep to demonstrate that God is not done with you just because your body dies.
Look at the contrasts between the girl and the woman.
Jesus also is demonstrating that all is not lost because the physical body is lost.
The soul is not abandoned because the body dies because the soul sleeps.
The God who created the body can surely raise the body if he wants to.
(Don’t get ahead)
Look at the contrasts between the girl and the woman.
— intentionality of Mark (Who wrote Mark?)
12 years old vs. 12 years bleeding.
Both have been dying for 12 years.
The child, spiritually.
The woman, physically.
Both are called, ‘daughter,’ one the daughter of Jairus (a synagogue leader) and the 2nd the daughter of God (Jesus).
Jesus will restore the girl as a daughter of Jairus.
But, he restores the woman as a daughter of God, “Your faith has saved you.”
Both women are ritually unclean when Jesus encounters them.
(Which means?)
The girl because of death
The woman because of blood
(ineligible to participate in worship, i.e. to be in God’s presence and yet, Jesus purifies them in His presence).
That is, God takes the impurity of the people upon himself so that the can be in His presence.
Jesus should have become unclean when he touched the woman or the girl, but instead of their impurity coming upon Him, His purity is imputed to them.
Normal path of impurity, ILL: cockroach in the cherries.
Both the girl and the woman were saved from death
the girl from physical death (which Jesus called sleep) and the woman from spiritual death.
I want to talk about Jairus more.
Rather than flaunt his religious status (how much influence did he have?) he humbled himself before Jesus.
The significance of this event demonstrates that it is not faith by itself that saves from death, but that…
Faith in Jesus saves from death
5:41-43
Is Jesus following the traditions of middle eastern mystics?
“Talitha koum” as magic words?
Accusation to downplay the reality of Jesus’s actions as well as to downplay the historicity of the events and reduce it to mere mythology.
Or did Jesus speak Aramaic?
(common language of Mesopotamian/Palestinian region before the rise of the Greek/Syrian languages; cf.
Daniel/Ezra and many NT references)
Mark vs. the synoptics…
Conclusion: this is not even an expression (cf.
footnotes), but more likely the actual words Jesus spoke and which Mark quotes.
Jesus is the Lord of life, itself.
The inseparability of Jesus as savior as Jesus as giver of life:
If you can get in the mind of Paul, it’s almost lie he’s answering questions for himself.
Why can Jesus overcome the domain of darkness in this world?
Why is Jesus the ruler of God’s Kingdom?
Why does Jesus redeem people?
Why can Jesus forgive sins?
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