1. The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
April 7, 2013

3. The naming of Dr. Bill Katip to replace
retiring president, Dr. Ron Manahan

4. The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
April 7, 2013

5. Sharpening Our Focus on Christ!
Five passages each week to help us
“fix our eyes upon Jesus!”

7. The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
April 7, 2013

8. Mark 4:35 thru end of chp. 5
4:35-41 – Jesus’ sovereignty over the
natural realm (wind and sea)
5:1-20 – Jesus’ sovereignty over the
supernatural realm (demons)
5:21-43 – Jesus’ sovereignty over
disease and death

9. A story within a story . . .
The primary story involves a desperate
father and his dying daughter
(vv. 21-24a; 35-43)
The second story involves a despairing
woman and her incurable disease
(vv. 24b-34)

10. A story within a story . . .
Mark 5:21
And when Jesus had crossed again in the
boat to the other side, a great crowd
gathered about him, and he was beside
the sea.

11. The story’s setting . . .

12. A story within a story . . .
Mark 5:21
And when Jesus had crossed again in the
boat to the other side, a great crowd
gathered about him, and he was beside
the sea.

13. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:22-24a
Then came one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing
him, he fell at his feet and implored him
earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at
the point of death. Come and lay your
hands on her, so that she may be made
well and live.” And he went with him.

14. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Jairus was . . .
- very religious
- highly respected
- filled with intense anxiety
- moved by genuine faith

15. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:22-24a
Then came one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing
him, he fell at his feet and implored him
earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at
the point of death. Come and lay your
hands on her, so that she may be made
well and live.” And he went with him.

16. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Mark 5:24b-26
And a great crowd followed him
and thronged about him. And there was a
woman who had had a discharge of
blood for twelve years, and who had
suffered much under many physicians,
and had spent all that she had, and was
no better but rather grew worse.

17. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Mark 5:27-28
She had heard the reports about Jesus
and came up behind him in the crowd
and touched his garment. For she said, “If
I touch even his garments, I will be made
well.”

18. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
This despairing woman was . . .
- chronically ill
vv. 25-26a -- And there was a woman
who had had a discharge of blood for
twelve years, and who had suffered
much under many physicians . . . and was
no better but rather grew worse.

19. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
This despairing woman was . . .
- chronically ill
- ritually unclean

20. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Leviticus 15:25
If a woman has a discharge of blood for
many days, not at the time of her
menstrual impurity, or if she has a
discharge beyond the time of her impurity,
all the days of the discharge she shall
continue in uncleanness. As in the days of
her impurity, she shall be unclean.

21. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Leviticus 15:26-27a
Every bed on which she lies, all the days
of her discharge, shall be to her as the
bed of her impurity. And everything on
which she sits shall be unclean, as in the
uncleanness of her menstrual
impurity. And whoever touches these
things shall be unclean. . .

22. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
This despairing woman was . . .
- chronically ill
- ritually unclean
v. 26 – (she)
- socially isolated had spent all
that she had...
- totally destitute

23. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Mark 5:29
And immediately the flow of blood dried
up, and she felt in her body that she was
healed of her disease.

24. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Mark 5:30-32
And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power
had gone out from him, immediately
turned about in the crowd and said, “Who
touched my garments?” And his disciples
said to him, “You see the crowd pressing
around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched
me?’” And he looked around to see who
had done it.

25. A despairing woman and
her incurable disease
Mark 5:33-34
But the woman, knowing what had
happened to her, came in fear and
trembling and fell down before him and
told him the whole truth. And he said to
her, “Daughter, your faith has made
you well; go in peace, and be healed of
your disease.”

26. A desperate father and
a dying daughter
Mark 5:35
While he was still speaking, there came
from the ruler's house some who said,
“Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the
Teacher any further?”

27. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:36-37
But overhearing what they said, Jesus
said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do
not fear, only believe.” And he allowed
no one to follow him except Peter and
James and John the brother of James.

28. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:38
They came to the house of the ruler of
the synagogue, and Jesus saw a
commotion, people weeping and wailing
loudly.

29. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:39-40
And when he had entered, he said to
them, “Why are you making a commotion
and weeping? The child is not dead but
sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But
he put them all outside and took the child's
father and mother and those who were
with him and went in where the child was.

30. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:41-42
Taking her by the hand he said to
her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little
girl, I say to you, arise.” And immediately
the girl got up and began walking (for she
was twelve years of age), and they were
immediately overcome with amazement.

31. A desperate father and
his dying daughter
Mark 5:43
And he strictly charged them that no one
should know this, and told them to give
her something to eat.

32. Today’s Takeaways . . .
1. There’s no such thing as “hopeless”
when Jesus is in the picture!

33. Today’s Takeaways . . .
This chapter (Mark 5) when taken as a
whole presents Jesus as the Hope of
the hopeless!
- the demoniac – hopelessly wild
- the woman – hopelessly ill
- the girl – hopelessly lost

34. Today’s Takeaways . . .
1. There’s no such thing as “hopeless”
when Jesus is in the picture!

35. Today’s Takeaways . . .
2. What we view as “interruptions”
are often divine appointments! So be
willing and be alert to how God might
want to be using you to touch
someone’s life!

36. Today’s Takeaways . . .
Mark 5:31
And his disciples said to him, “You see
the crowd pressing around you, and
yet you say, ‘Who touched me?”

37. Today’s Takeaways . . .
2. What we view as “interruptions”
are often divine appointments! So be
willing and be alert to how God might
want to be using you to touch
someone’s life!