Power to Heal Death
Notes
Transcript
Jesus strong enough to overcome even the fall’s greatest curse death
Contrast - public approaches of paralytic, Jairus, and his status with Daughter - three disciples nicknamed, with himat key points of revelation - tthree ‘nicknamed’ disciples (see on 3:17) to be with him at moments of special revelatory significance; cf. 9:2 (the transfiguration); 13:3 (the final discourse; with Andrew); 14:33 (Gethsemane). The supreme miracle of raising the dead is also for their eyes only.
death is real, but in this case temporary… not resurrection but same words since, in resuscitation foreshadowing of power over death as basis of XN FAITH
Interesting that Jesus doesn’t wait for Jairus’ reaction blief or unbeleif regarding her dying…
Jesus less concerned about strength of faith and theological correctness than actual faith in Him!!!
= not magical but faith in person = but not for the purpose of encouraging crude, magical interpretations of Jesus. Rather, his principal descriptions of Jesus’ power indicate that Jesus is not just a teacher or a prophet. His presentation of Jesus’ wondrous power is tied to his emphasis on the person of Jesus and does not promote an interest in magical powers and practices.
BOth miracles, people delievered from helpless estate, UNDER LAW (forbidden to touch any holy thing), and under death. But touch Jesus and cleanness and holiness transformed…
Structure
Hemorrhaging woman’s story key to understanding combined! both 12 years, both unclean like 4 stories = transfer of uncleanness to Jesus and to each Jesus bestows the cleansing wholeness of God! = St. Jude chapter!
= double barreled impact of power of Jesus’ compassion, with upper class and second class, unclean!
Followed by Rejection = These two incidents are followed by the rejection of Jesus in Nazareth, his home town, and they seem to prepare the reader to view that rejection as all the more unwarranted. But these miracles, together with the rejection, also seem to prefigure symbolically the final rejection of Jesus, culminating in the trial and crucifixion
The woman needed to know it was her faith not superstition or magic that saved her… do you and I… Jesus searching eye = v.32 kept looking around for YOU AND ME TOO = resond with TREMBLING FEAR , prostrate yourself before him…
Jesus says to her: The phrase “Go in peace” is a traditional Jewish formula of leave-taking (cf. šālôm, “shalom” [cf. Judg 18:6; 1 Sam 1:17]). The word peace here “means not just freedom from inward anxiety, but that wholeness or completeness of life that comes from being brought into a right relationship with God” (Anderson, p. 154, italics his; cf. also TDNT, II: 911).
By Jesus’ last statement to the woman—“be freed from your suffering”—he actively participated in her healing and confirmed God’s will to make her well.
25-27 since death is FINAL?
Jairus asking in v.23 be saved, and woman in 28,34 made well is all sozo= salvation comes through faith in Jesus. Faith always element of humility, without humility faith cannot germinate!!!
Mishnah whole tractae on ritual uncleanness of those with monthly flow , 3rd 4th century uncleanness stops healer’s power… scandal for her to be in a crowd and with holy healer too… only one particular touch draws out healing power from him = impure with faith!!! vs, Hebrew notion that impure corrupts the pure whenever two come into contact… vs. PUre cleanses the IMPURE!!! old boundaries no longer needed!!
fear since socially unacceptable, yet faith can’t stay hidden. FAITH SAVED /HEALED YOU = thicken plot for Jairus - instruct him on the power of faith, … will Jairus believe the impossible?
5:27-29 Big deal is beyond Leviticus - avoid her = Later Jewish tradition made this danger even more serious than Leviticus had (e.g., Mishnah Toharot 5:8), so many teachers avoided touching women altogether, lest they become accidentally contaminated. Thus she could not touch or be touched, was probably now divorced or had never married, and was marginal to Jewish society.
5:30–34. Jewish people believed that only teachers closest to God had supernatural knowledge. Jesus uses his supernatural knowledge to identify with the woman who had touched him—even though in the eyes of the public this would mean that he had contracted ritual uncleanness = GOD ID’ing woman…
35-40 The Test of Faith - news of death… travel with Jesus in valley of shadow of death = though all say death means end, Jesus’ words from caliming of storm Mark 5:36
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 8: Matthew, Mark, Luke 5. Raising Jairus’s Daughter (5:35–43)
Swete (p. 107) puts it succinctly: “The Lord has dismissed one crowd only to find the house occupied by another.”
Why so afraid why no faith… don’t be afraid, faith = Siutation + You + God = ????
Asleep = as a euphemism for death (Dan 12:2), and this should be the interpretation here. Mark’s narrative is certainly about a miracle being performed and not a misunderstanding being cleared. Behind this euphemism lay a powerful theological idea: death is not final, since Jesus has the power to raise dead
41-43 The Vindication of Faith: the Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
All 4 Miracle Stories, not just miracle worker - but ID of Jesus dramatic and spectacular = central q = who is this? Who is this person who can control forces associated with the primeval chaos, tame a legion of evil forces, cleanse the chronically impure, and raise the dead? and with it q of faith in storm, faith when town rejects you, faith when all human healing fails, faith in the face of death = that faith in this Christ, is the instrument that saves! = fits with parables of secret of Kingdom = faith is needed response!
THE POINT: Ellis sums up the theological meaning of this miracle: “Like its younger brother, sickness, death is an enemy. But it must yield to the powers of the messianic kingdom present in Jesus. In the presence of Christ, death becomes a ‘sleeping.’ … ‘Finis’ is transformed into prelude. Until the parousia its sting remains, but its ultimate threat is broken. If we ‘believe,’ we need not live in dread: ‘fear not!’ ” (E. Earle Ellis, The Gospel of Luke, NCB [Greenwood, S.C.: Attic 1966]. p. 134).