Mark 5 Trouble with the Doctors

Intro

Churchill at Al Alamein

Pope Pius V when dying cried out despairingly: When I was in the lowly condition I had some hopes of salvation; When I became a Cardinal I greatly doubted it; but since I came to the Popedom I have not hope at all.

do you feel like there are parts of your life that are a hopeless cause?

The Story

This ruler of the Synagogue was a distinguished man and yet he falls to his knees before Jesus and begs. When was the last time you begged Jesus for anything?

Matthew and Mark Notes

5:23 is dying. Lit., “has the last” or “has [it] terminally”; our idiom might be “is on her last leg.” The leader understood that Jesus could heal her.

ἐσχάτως the study of the last times. could mean “at the end”

They asked for the girl’s Salvation in 23

Mark (3) The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter (5:21–24a, 35–43)

In all the miracles of Mark 5, physical healing is a parable of spiritual deliverance.

Have you invited Jesus to lay His hands on you?

verse 40 can you imagain laughing at Jesus? Lots of people do. They brush Him off as a nothing and laugh at the warning in His word.

The Woman

are you willing to let others have Jesus or do you want Him all to yourself. Sometimes people don’t like it when God is moving in other person’s lives. Almost like they get Jealous When churches grow sometimes people get jealous. I was her first. I was doing this ministry first. Don’t be like that.

This condition in the ancient world was incurable.

Matthew and Mark Notes

5:25 constant bleeding. This is lit. “a flow of blood,” a euphemistic reference to vaginal bleeding. It made the woman ceremonially unclean (the language matches Lev 15:25–30) and a source of uncleanness, thus prohibiting her from marital relations and to some degree restricting a normal social life.

Matthew and Mark Notes

had gotten worse. In Judaism, doctors were viewed on a spectrum between esteem (Sir 38:1–5) and contempt (m. Qiddushin 4.14; Tob 2:10; Geulich 1989:297).

Doctors back then were view kind of like today.

My sister was misdiagnosed with JRA and her condition only got worse.

Mark (4) The Healing of the Woman with a Hemorrhage (5:24b–34)

The description of the medical profession was not intended to denigrate but to show how the power of Jesus transcends human limitations.

Jesus does not ‘practice’ medicine He preforms healings.

there was an ancient belief that a parson power could be conducted by their clothes. Remember Saul tried to gave David his armor and Xerxes gave Mordacai his robe. Elijah threw his cloke over Elisha.

maybe her faith was mixed with the notion that if she could just touch Jesus she would be made well. Verse 3:10 shows us that maybe she had heard of someone else being healed this way.

The power went out of Him not through Him. Jesus is the source of the power. Have you looked to the source for help?

Reminds me of King Asa in the OT. He did not rely on the Lord but the king of Aram. He developed a disease in his feet but even in his disease he did not rely on the Lord but on the doctors.

2 Chronicles 16

It was faith that healed the women not physical touch or magic.

James 5:13–15 CSB

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

He calls her daughter which shows that she has been saved also spiritually by her faith. btw this is the only place in the NT where Jesus calls someone daughter. She has a new relationship with Him. A family relationship.

verse 29 do you have an affliction today?

If you think this story is amazing it only gets more amazing…stay tune.

The Raising of Jairus Daughter.

Why bother the teacher anymore? At what point do you come to a point in your life when you stop troubling God with your needs.

Cast all your cares and anxiousness on God because He cares for you.

What if it is too late? It is never too late with God.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 5:33–34

Jesus said, Go in peace and be freed (lit., “be healthy”) from your suffering (cf. 5:29). This assured her that her healing was complete and permanent. In her extremity of need—incurable illness and socio-religious isolation—she was a living “dead” person for 12 years. Her restoration to wholeness of life anticipated the dramatic raising of Jairus’ daughter who died after living for 12 years.

the professional criers now become amateur laughers.

Finish this statement: It is not over until.... None of those are true with Jesus. Death is not an end with our God.

When you think your are at your end God can still step in.

Sometimes God waits until its over to pick people up.

When doubters laugh saying it’s over that’s when God starts over.

Churchill “The speech was made 29 October 1941 to the boys at Harrow School. “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”

Faith is an awareness that Jesus can fix what others have given up on.