Mark 5:21-6:6a
Dear RTB’ers,
I have often suggested in my posts that anyone reading our text put him/herself into the story. Today’s reading has quite a cast of characters: people in the crowd beside the sea; Jairus, the synagogue official, whose daughter is dying; the woman with the 12-year hemorrhage; one of Jesus’ skeptical disciples viewing the healing; Peter, James, and John accompanying Jesus to Jairus’ home; the mourning crowd at the house; Jesus’ family at His home in Nazareth; or attendees at the Nazareth synagogue. Almost lost in today’s reading is a minor, sub-sub-sub story, almost an aside: And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. (v. 6:5) If I’m going to put myself into today’s reading, I think I’d like to be one of those forgotten folks whom Jesus healed at Nazareth. I daresay that I’d be as happy with my encounter with Him as Jairus or any other character in today’s reading.
Blessings!
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