22. A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman (5:21-43)

Mark ties together two stories that both seem to raise hopeless causes, a women with a twelve-year disease, and a girl who has just died. The stories seem unrelated, except that both require faith that 'goes public.' In the case of Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, faith must abandon concern for public status and bow the knee to Jesus. In the case of the woman, faith must come out of the shadows, and tell the 'whole truth.'