Today’s sermon was given by our reader Julie Taylor on 30th June 2024 for Healing Sunday.
Unfortunately the reading was not recorded and the first couple of minutes are missing from the sermon.
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Mark 5 v 21-43
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a
large crowd gathered round him while he was by the lake.
22 Then one of the
synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at
his feet.
23 He pleaded earnestly with him, ‘My little daughter is dying. Please
come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.’
24 So
Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed round him.
25 And a woman was there
who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
26 She had suffered a great
deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of
getting better she grew worse.
27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up
behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
28 because she thought, ‘If I
just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’
29 Immediately her bleeding stopped
and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realised that power had gone out from him. He turned round
in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’
31 ‘You see the people crowding against you,’ his disciples answered, ‘and yet
you can ask, “Who touched me?”’
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman,
knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling
with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has
healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus,
the synagogue leader. ‘Your daughter is dead,’ they said. ‘Why bother the
teacher anymore?’
36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe.’
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother
of James.
38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw
a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.
39 He went in and said to
them, ‘Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but
asleep.’
40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the
disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
41 He took her
by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha koum!’ (which means ‘Little girl, I say to
you, get up!’).
42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she
was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
43 He gave
strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her
something to eat.
