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Introduction
The snapshot stories today show Jesus and Mark treating women with respect and honor, receiving their word as valid witness/testimony, dealing with them as disciples, valuing and validating and caring for them.
If Mark were written more to an audience of Christians in Rome, then the status of women may have been different anyway to that of Israel.
Often men spoke up for women to receive help, but we see several in Mark approaching Jesus.
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Peter’s Mother-in-law
Mark 1:29-31
Peter’s mother-in-law.
healed her of the fever and she served them.
In Chapter 1 we’ve already looked at Jesus’ start in ministry with His baptism, temptation in the wilderness, and inviting men to follow Him.
His first miracle story is driving out an unclean spirit from a man in the synagogue.
Interesting though is Jesus’ first healing miracle recorded by Mark is a woman.
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While the story recounts the restoration of a woman to ordinary life, its particular vocabulary links her experience to that of Christ.
Word for raised up is same as Jesus’ resurrection.
Serve is same as angels ministering to Jesus in wilderness, and Jesus came not to be served but to serve.
(FSB)
(not just recovering, but up serving.)
Jairus’s Daughter and Woman in Crowd
Mark 5:21-43
Did you ever go to the ER and have to wait?
What if you took your child who was in dire condition and could possibly die, and then someone with a serious but non-life-threatening condition walked in and the doctor saw them first.
What if just as the doctor finishes with that person your child dies?
Woman bleeding and Jairus’s daughter
Very interesting how Mark splits the story of Jairus’s daughter’s healing to add time and a sense of urgency.
Also a sense of tension as she then is reported to have died.
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But on the way…
Doesn’t say what kind of bleeding, but not normal, not monthly, it wouldn’t stop and got worse.
bleeding that doctors couldn’t cure
In any case, bleeding made her unclean and separated her from the synagogue and social contact.
Note that her affliction was 12 years of suffering.
No doctor was able to help her.
Here is a woman approaching Jesus.
She touched the end of His robe and was healed.
Jesus could have let her go, but He asked who touched Him to bring her out and have her speak her request and speak faith.
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Daughter!
A kind expression of compassion.
Saved by faith, received peace and healing.
A woman approaches Jesus in faith and receives something she has desired for 12 years.
Back to Jairus and his story
v.35 Jairus hears that his daughter already died – Why bother the teacher anymore?
Jesus reassures Jairus Do not fear, only believe.
v.41 Little girl, I say get up (not just recovering, but up walking.)
a bleeding woman and a dead girl.
Lots of common items in the story.
#12.
Ritually unclean.
Faith.
The touch of Jesus.
both encounter Jesus and His healing.
Gentile Woman
Mark 7:24-30
Syrophoenician woman (gentile) more faith than disciples even, and able to counter Jesus first rebuttal(?).
Tyre – town along the Med Sea coast.
Gentile area.
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v.24-25 in a house, Gentile woman comes in on behalf of her young daughter
Jesus responds and it sounds strange at first and almost like a severe put down.
Dog = little dog, house dog.
v.29 demon cast out by the faith of the mother.
The girl was not present.
Poor Widow and Rich Lady
Mark 12:
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widow who gave all held up as example of selfless giving.
Widow who must have been suffering as in v.40 by the hand of scribes.
giving to a system that was unjust and a temple that would soon be destroyed.
goes with widow story above, woman who sacrificed a great wealth on the temple of Jesus’ body.
Tell the stories
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Tell the anointing then
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Two women who give something of great value to the temple.
Recognized for their faith and sacrifice.
Women at the Cross
– women at the cross and tomb.
Tell story.
Talk about Mary Magdalene who anointed Jesus, Mary who is also Jesus’ mother, and Salome who may be the mother of James and John.
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Followed at a distance.
Stayed near Jesus even through death, saw place of burial.
Came back to tomb.
Failed to report as told.
But even in failure, forgiveness and hope.
Conclusion
Mark lifted up women in his stories, the snapshots of Jesus in His ministry.
Mark showed that Jesus lifted up women in importance and value.
Women in Marks stories showed faith, courage even in the face of fear, followed and served Jesus, and often portrayed as the successes in the cases of men’s failures.
Although, in the end they also failed because of fear.
I believe Jesus is still saying to His followers – Don’t be afraid, only believe.
Big Idea: Jesus values women, raises their status and importance.
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