40 And when Jesus returned, the crowd received him, because they were all waiting for him. 41 And behold, a man named Jairus came, and he was the leader of the synagogue, and fell at Jesus' feet and besought him to come into his house, 42 because he had a daughter She was an only woman, about twelve years old, and she was in a state of death. As he was setting out, the crowds crowded him.
43 And a woman who had had an issue of blood for twelve years, and had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be cured of any, 44 came from and He saw him and touched the hem of his garment. Immediately her bleeding stopped. 45 Then Jesus said, “Who touched me?” And when they all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Teacher, the crowds are harassing you and pressing you, and you are saying, ‘Who touched me?’” 46 Then Jesus said, “Someone has touched me, for I know that power is out of me.” 47 And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and fell down before him, and declared him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how he was healed Done immediately. 48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, be of good courage; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
49 While he was speaking, someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said to him, “Your daughter is dead. Do not tire the teacher. 50 Then Jesus heard it, and answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid! “Only believe, and you will be healed.” 51 And when he came into the house, he allowed no one to come in except Peter, and James, and John, and the father and mother of the child. 52 And everyone was weeping and lashing out over her. He said: “Do not cry. “She is not dead, but sleeping.” 53 They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. 54 Then he put them all outside, and took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise!” 55 Then her spirit returned and she rose immediately. So he commanded that it be given to her to eat. 56 Her parents were astonished. So he commanded them not to tell anyone what had happened.
Explanation, from my parish bulletin:
These two miracles fall within the context of the miracles that preceded them in the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Luke. Jesus calmed the storm while he was in the lake with his disciples (Luke 8: 22-25), demonstrating his authority over the forces of nature. Then he cast out demons from the possessed person in the region of the Gergesites (Luke 8: 26-39), demonstrating his authority over the spirits. Then he healed the woman who was bleeding and restored life to her womb, demonstrating his power to give life. He raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead, demonstrating his power over death. So the four wonders express Jesus’ absolute authority over all that is visible and invisible, and we express this in the church when we call Jesus “the Almighty.”
In a quick reading of this text, we can consider that each incident - of these two wonders - forms an independent unit from the other. However, we find a parallel between the two incidents. The bleeding woman has been sick for 12 years, and Yaris's daughter is 12 years old. The two events - the healing and the resurrection of the girl - took place through physical contact. The woman was healed when she touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, and the daughter of Jerome was resurrected when Jesus held her hand. The two incidents took place in secret, not in public. The woman was healed and no one knew about her recovery - she told everyone after that - and the girl got up and Jesus asked that they not tell anyone. The bleeding woman and Yaris had no hope left for them [except] Jesus, as the woman “had spent her entire living on doctors and no one could heal her,” and Yaris’ daughter “was on the verge of death.” Finally, there are two main words in each of the two incidents: “faith” and “acquittal - salvation -”. Jesus says to the woman, “Your faith has made you well - saved you,” and Jesus also says to Iris, “Only believe, and you will be healed - you will be saved.”
“A man named Jairus.” The name is not mentioned in Matthew or Mark. Luke only mentions the name, which in the Hebrew original means “gives light.” Perhaps the Evangelist Luke put it because of his belief that the Lord Jesus is the true light that restored the sparkle to Jairus’ life when he believed in Him. Jairus was the leader of the synagogue in Capernaum, and Saint Luke tells us that Jesus performed the first miracle there (Luke 4: 31-37). Jairus must have gone to Jesus to ask for the healing of his daughter, because he witnessed the exit of Satan at his hand.
“A woman bleeding.” According to Sharia law, this woman is unclean (Leviticus 15:25) and is not allowed to approach anyone. This reason prompted her to approach Jesus from behind instead of facing him. “No one was able to heal her.” The Evangelist Mark tells us that she did not benefit at all from the doctors, “but went from bad to worse” (Mark 5:26).
The “hem of the garment” is a tassel placed at the four corners of the garment, and its purpose is to remind of God’s commandments (Numbers 15:37-41 and Deuteronomy 22:12).
“Jesus said, 'Whoever touches me...power has gone out of me.'” Why did Jesus ask about the woman? So that you know that what happened was not a magic touch, Jesus is not a magician. Rather, healing is based on faith, and this faith is necessarily permanent and not fleeting. So Jesus did not want to announce the miracle of healing, but rather wanted to visit the woman. As for the announcement of the miracle, it was issued by the woman when she “told before the people for what reason she had touched him.” Thus, the woman was no longer ashamed of her illness, but rather it became a cause for good news for her and conclusive evidence of the authority of Jesus. She declared her faith without hesitation. Healing is an opportunity to build a never-ending relationship with Jesus. You scoop up this flow coming from him and attract his attention even if he was unaware of you, so he returns to miss you with his mercy, qualifying you for the rank of the saved.
The Lord Jesus said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid. Only believe and you will be healed.” Moments ago, Jesus praised the woman’s faith, perhaps to plant hope in Jairus’ heart, explaining, “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23). So Jesus said to Jairus: Do not be defeated by death, do not let it destroy your resolve and faith. The believer is unshakable in the face of death.
“He entered the house and did not let anyone in except Peter, James, and John.” The Evangelist Mark tells us that Jesus “brought them all out” (Mark 5:40), and they were “weeping and howling,” that is, mourning the girl. Jesus stopped mourning, as it is not the nature of a believer. The mourner has lost hope and is unable to see the great things of God.
We find Peter, James, and John with the Lord Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Luke 9:28) and during His final suffering in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:37). He chose them to be his witnesses after his resurrection.. Therefore, he made them close to him and entrusted them with the divine message.
“Boys, get up.” Every resurrection comes from the resurrection of the Lord Jesus because he is “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20). As for the raising of the widow Nain’s son (see Luke 7:11-16), the raising of Lazarus (see John 11), and the raising of Jairus’ daughter, they are a prior taste of the resurrection of Jesus and a prior evocation of it. These third events were activated by the presence of Jesus, according to what he said to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes By me, even if he dies, he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25-26).
“He commanded that it be given to eat” so that those who witnessed the Resurrection would not think that they were seeing a ghost. Jesus asked the girl for food to confirm her well-being, just as the indication of the well-being of sickness is the appetite for food. Jesus instructed her parents “not to tell anyone what happened” in order to preserve the divine secret that would be revealed at Calvary with the death and resurrection of Jesus himself. Everything Jesus did is understood in the light of this final event. Jesus emphasized secrecy so as not to misunderstand the miracle whose features will become clear after the Savior’s resurrection.
On the meaning of the Gospel, from the bulletin of the Archbishopric of Latakia:
The leader of the synagogue came to Jesus, very sad because his only daughter was about to die, and while he was going with him, a woman who had been bleeding for many years turned to Jesus, after she had given up on all human attempts to help her get rid of her suffering. She approached him with hope, and touched his garment with faith. What was the result? She got what she wanted and was completely healed, and the Lord said to her: “Daughter of your faith, I will heal you. Go in peace.” Meanwhile, Jesus and the leader of the synagogue were late in arriving home, as if Jesus was intentionally waiting for the daughter’s death to take place, so that he would come and make the sign of the resurrection clear, and this is what Jesus did in the case of Lazarus, as he waited three days and arrived on the fourth day and raised the dead man. Jairus was troubled to hear that his daughter had died. They told him: “Your daughter is dead, so do not trouble the Master.” But the Lord said to him: “Do not be afraid, just believe and she will be healed.” Do not be afraid of the death of your daughter, for the believer is in constant peace of mind and peace even in death, because the Master of Life turned death into slumber.
This was not easy to believe for the president of the complex, but the impossible became a reality.
Beloved, we are always torn between what people tell us and what God tells us, and we must choose! The right choice is not easy at all. Sometimes we may suffer for a long time from a problem, illness, desires, or thoughts that fight us, and the Lord may delay in coming to us and responding to us, so we feel doubt and confusion and search for human comforts far from the Lord, and we may feel despair and frustration. But let us not despair, for there is no despair with Christ. Whoever accompanies Christ will depart from despair and live in peace and hope. Let us cry out to him, as the Psalmist says, “I cried to the Lord in my distress.” This matter requires true faith through which we experience that the Lord alone will protect us from every adversity and from every situation. Death, in which we discover again who God is!
