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Mark 5:21-43

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bulletReading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bulletThe Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
bulletThe World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
bulletHistorical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bulletComparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit: Healing.
bulletThe Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
bullet I.III.3, II.XXII, V.XIII.1, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
bullet IV.25, VI.14, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
bulletFrom the Catena Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.
bulletFrom the Geneva Notes.
bullet"By faith fathers apprehended the promises of life even for their children."
bulletFrom Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"We may suppose Jairus hesitating whether he should ask Christ to go on or not, when told that his daughter was dead. But have we not as much occasion for the grace of God, and the comfort of his Spirit, for the prayers of our ministers and Christian friends, when death is in the house, as when sickness is there?"
bulletFrom Wesley's Notes.
bullet"He commanded something should be given her to eat - So that when either natural or spiritual life is restored, even by immediate miracle, all proper means are to be used in order to preserve it."
bulletFrom the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"Jairus by name--or "Jaeirus." It is the same name as Jair, in the Old Testament (Nu 32:41; Jud 10:3; Es 2:5)."     
bulletFrom The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
bullet"Christ, conscious of the approach and condition of this woman, voluntarily healed her. His language that follows is to bring out the moral issue. He cured her, not by touch or word, as was usual with him, but by act of will. By his question he called out her public confession. Faith saves. It may not be intelligent faith, for this woman was not well instructed, but is a faith strong enough to lead to action."
bulletContemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet Commentary, Mark 5:21-43, Mark G. Vitalis Hoffman, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2009.
bullet"Look around! Are there miracles happening that we do not notice because of the crush of so many who press upon us?"
bullet Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
bullet A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5:1 - 6:6, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers for commentary.)
bullet "Jesus Raises Jairus' Daughter and Heals the Bleeding Woman," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, "a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark."
bullet "Healing Powers," Kate Huey, Weekly Seeds, i.UCC.org, 2009.
bullet"Jesus gives life not only to the dead, but to those of us who are 'only partly alive...who much of the time live with our lives closed to the wild beauty and the miracle of things, including the wild beauty and miracle of every day we live and even of ourselves.' That, Buechner says, is the power at the heart of this story and all of our stories: 'the power of new life, new hope, new being.'"
bullet Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours, Mark 5:21-43, David Ewart, 2009.
bullet"Jesus does NOT want us to be amazed. He wants us to trust God. To trust without hesitations or reservations. To trust without fear. Now THAT would be amazing."
bullet "First Thoughts on Year B Gospel Passages in the Lectionary," Pentecost 4, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
bullet"...the sacredness of this text lies less in what history it might purport to tell and more in what it celebrates."
bulletExegetical Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks.
bullet"Jesus mixes everything up. Jesus doesn't become unclean by contact with the unclean people. They don't bring him down to their level. Jesus' holiness transforms their uncleanness."
bullet Commentary, Mark 5:25-34, Deborah K. Blanks, The African American Lectionary, 2009.
bullet"Jesus called a woman unnamed in scripture from the shadows of anonymity. He called her 'daughter,' a designation that signifies kinship, relationship and lineage."
bullet "He Heals the Sick and Raises the Dead," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
bulletShould I touch him? - a Reflection on Mark 5:25-34; Matthew 9:20-22; Luke 7:42b-48, William Loader.
bullet Healing Jarius' Daughter and Woman with Hemmorhage, Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
bullet Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
bullet Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 13B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
bullet "Arise," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.
bullet"The Greek term for arise [GSN1453 egeiro] is fascinating. It would refer to a life-changing event, command, or challenge that would pull someone out of obscurity, inactivity, nonexistence, or, in our case, near-death."
bulletEnvironmental & earth-centered reflections from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Environmental Stewardship Commission.
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "Bloody Women and Bloody Spaces, Menses and the Eucharist in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," Joan R. Branham, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 2009.
bullet"Here, the generative and purifying affinities that exist between reproductive blood and the Eucharist take explicit visual form. Here, sacrificial blood and reproductive blood become one."
bullet Confronting the Crisis in Health Care in the Year 2009, the Rev. Bruce Gillette, Witherspoon on the Web.
bullet "Mark 5," wikipedia.
bullet "Marcan Love, Sotto Voce," Mark Kiley, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2009.
bullet"Mark's community was heir to preaching about Jewish Scriptures concerning love. Homilists, catechists and the final Evangelist used these as well as Paul's hymn to love as interpretative lenses through which to present the Jesus tradition. They suggested in a subtle manner that the Jesus-event is, at root, about love. This article is an appeal to listen to the still whisper that informs Mark's good news."
bullet "Jesus as Healer," John J. Pilch, (other resources at) "Health," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2007.
bullet"As a folk healer, Jesus restored meaning to people’s lives...Are we engaged in life-giving or death-dealing deeds? Are we restoring meaning to life, or robbing it of the meaning intended by the Creator?"
bullet "Magic, Miracles, and The Gospel," L. Michael White. PBS From Jesus to Christ.
bullet"Probably in some ways, and more than any other issue within the development of early Christianity and the gospels tradition, miracles present one of the problematic areas."
bullet "First Century Models of Bodily Healing and Their Socio-Rhetorical Transformation in some New Testament Synoptic Gospel Traditions," L. Gregory Bloomquist, Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power.
bullet "Everything Is Possible for One Who Believes," Sigurd Grindheim, Trinity Journal, 2005.
bullet"The negative counterpart to the idea of religious faith as a prerequisite for healing is the thought that suffering is a consequence of sin."
bullet "Miracles, In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings," Jerome H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, 1995.
bullet"...we should attend to the institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom. The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant. 8.45-48)."
bullet"Women Transformed: The Ending of Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom," by Marie Sabin in CrossCurrents, Summer 1998.
bullet"The raising up of the little girl thus echoes the raising up of the mother-in-law and anticipates the raising up of Jesus. At the same time, the renewed life of the twelve-year-old girl is linked structurally to the healing of the "unclean" woman. In this way Mark suggests that the transformations of all three women are related theologically, not only to each other, but also to the transformed life which the disciples witness in Jesus."
bullet"Demonism in Jewish/Hellenistic Literature and Its Relation to Mark 5," by Greg Herrick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
bullet"The Jewish source materials that were written in and around the era of the shaping of the N.T. contribute greatly to an understanding of the historical/theological milieu of the Scriptures, in particular in this study, references to demons and their relation to Mark 5."
bullet"Faith Healing," Kenneth W. Collins. At Ken Collins' Web Site.
bullet"When we pray for healing, who must have faith?."
bullet"The Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World," Howard Clark Kee, University of Pennsylvania. Theology Today, 1992.
bullet"If the church in our time were to take with full seriousness the radical openness toward women and their participation in the life of God's people that characterized the movement at the outset, it could result in a significant contribution toward renewal of both the church and the human race."
bullet "Moses / Jesus / Women: Does the New Testament Offer a Feminist Message?" Esther Fuchs, Cross Currents, 1999.
bullet "Reading Jesus as a feminist perpetuates anti-Judaic traditions in Christian theology."
bullet "Blurring the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee," Virginia Burrus, The Theological School at Drew University. Theology Today, 1992.
bullet"...a blurring of religious or cultural boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the smugness that frequently creeps into Christian discussions of Judaism and other religious traditions. The roots of a distinctive Christian feminism would appear to be entangled in Jewish and pagan traditions, rather than emerging in pure and radical opposition to those traditions. Second, a blurring of chronological boundaries in our historical reconstructions may cut against the tendency to locate orthodox or authentic Christianity almost purely in a statically defined "golden age" of the distant past. After all, how liberating is it for Christian women to be invited to focus exclusively on "the insights of Jesus and Paul"?"
bullet "Jairus's Daughter: Was She Dead or Wasn't She?" Farrell Till, The Skeptical Review, 1994.
bullet"The major problem in the story, then, is quite simple: was the girl dead when her father came to Jesus for help or wasn't she? Mark said Jairus told Jesus that his daughter was lying at the point of death, and Luke simply said that "she was dying." Matthew, however, had the girl's father say, "My daughter has just died.""
bullet "Jairus's Daughter: Dead But Raised to Live Again," Roger W. Hutchinson, The Skeptical Review, 1996.
bullet"Matthew and Mark could not have been paraphrasing one unique statement made by Jairus, as Till wrongly assumes. Instead, they must have recorded two unique and different statements made by Jairus."
bulletMenstruation: Seven Lonely Days, from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible, by Ronald L. Ecker.
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bulletCapps, Donald, "Curing Anxious Adolescents through Fatherlike Performance," Interpretation, 2001.
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bulletDewey, Joanna, "Women in the Gospel of Mark," Word & World, 2006. (Section on this text begins on page 23.)
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bulletDube, Musa W., "Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-43," Ecumenical Review, 1999.
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bulletEdwards, James R., "Markan Sandwiches: The Significance of Interpolations in Markan Narratives," Novum Testamentum, 1989.
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bulletHaber, Susan, "A Woman's Touch: Feminist Encounters with the Hemorrhaging Woman in Mark 5:24-34," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2003.
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bulletHedrick, Charles W., "Miracles in Mark: A Study in Markan Theology and Its Implications for Modern Religious Thought," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2007.
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bulletIsaak, Paul J., "Health and Healing as a Challenge to Christian Ethics and Diaconal Ministry of the Church," Black Theology, 2003.
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bulletJoy, David, "Markan Subalterns/the Crowd and their Strategies of Resistance: A Postcolonial Critique," Black Theology, 2005.
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bulletLoader, William, "Challenged at the Boundaries: A Conservative Jesus in Mark's Tradition," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1996. (Section on this text begins on Page 58.)
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bulletMalbon, Elizabeth Struthers, "Fallible Followers: Women and Men in the Gospel of Mark," Semeia, 1983.
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bulletMaluleke, Tinyiko Sam, "The Graveyardman, the 'Escaped Convict and the Girl-Child: A Mission of Awakening, An Awakening of Mission," International Review of Mission, 2002.
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bulletMcCloskey, Liz Liebold, "Hearing and Healing Hedda Nussbaum: a Reflection on Mark 5:21-43," The Christian Century, 1989.
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bulletPowell, Charles E., "The 'Passivity' of Jesus in Mark 5:25-34," Bibliotheca Sacra, 2005.
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bulletSelvidge, Marla J., "Mark 5:25-34 and Leviticus 15:19-20: A Reaction to Restrictive Purity Regulations," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1984.
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bulletShomanah, Musa W. Dube, "Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-43," Ecumenical Review, 1999.
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bulletWatson, Francis, "The Social Function of Mark's Secrecy Theme," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1985.
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bulletWest, Gerald, "Constructing Critical and Contextual Readings with Ordinary Readers," Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 1995.
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bulletWillimon, William H., "Ready for Interruptions," The Christian Century, 1991.
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bulletWray, Judith Hoch, "Preaching Joy," The Living Pulpit, 1996. (see Joy issue focus of The Living Pulpit 5.4, 1996.)
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bulletReviews:
bullet Review: Cosimo Pagliara, La figura di Elia nel vangelo di Marco: Aspetti semantici e funzionali. Pontificia Universia Gregoriana, 2003. Review by Edward L Bode in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004. (Review is in English.)
bullet Review: Elisa Estévez López, El Poder de una Mujer Creyente: Cuerpo, identidad y discipulado en Mc 5, 24b-34. Un edstudio desde las ciencias sociales. Editorial Verbo Divino, 2004. Review of Biblical Literature.
bullet Review: Elisa Estévez López, El Poder de una Mujer Creyente: Cuerpo, identidad y discipulado en Mc 5, 24b-34. Un edstudio desde las ciencias sociales. Editorial Verbo Divino, 2004. Review by Bruce J. Malina in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.
bullet Reviews: Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well: Women's Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels. Westminster John Knox, 2004. Reviews by Orysya Hachko, Kelly Iverson, and Betsy J Bauman-Maring in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
bulletSermons:
bullet "A Daughter's Faith," the Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton, Day 1, 2009.
bullet Pentecost 4, 2 July 2006, Jim Mueller, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
bullet "Jesus and Maggie," Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
bullet "That None Be Left Out," Bishop L. Bevel Jones, Day 1, 2003.
bullet "My Name is Jairus," Dr. Thomas Groome, Boston College, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2000.
bullet "Can One So Great Care For one So Small?" John Jewell, 2000.
bulletFather Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily:
bullet Ordinary 13, 2009
bullet Ss Peter & Paul, 2008
bullet Ordinary 13, 2006
bullet Ordinary 13, 2000
bulletWith Children:
bullet "Jairus's Daughter," "Healing of Jairus's Daughter," Fr. Max Bowers, Kid's Church.
bulletCatholicMom.com: Coloring Page, Mass Worksheet for younger and older children, Crossword Puzzle, and Word Search based on weekly gospel text.
bullet "Jesus Heals the Sick," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts.
bullet "There Is Power in a Touch," Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com.
bullet "Raising of Jairus' Daughter," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com.
bullet "Mark 5 & 6 Crossword," Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
bulletDrama:
bulletGraphics & Bulletin Materials:
bullet Clip Art Images: Mark 5:21-43, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
bullet Mark 5:21-43, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
bullet Images for this week's readings, Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
bullet Clip Art: Jesus Raising Jairus' Daughter, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission Collection, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
bulletHymns and Music:
bullet Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
bullet Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Mark 5:39, 40. The Cyber Hymnal.
bullet Hymnal Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
bulletFine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
bulletHealing
bulletMovies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
bullet Healing
bullet Clean/Unclean
bulletLiterature and Literary References:
bullet"The Daughter of Jairus" by Beatrice Constance Peterson Redpath (-1937)
bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of Mark