The National tribune., 1889-02-07

Practical Duties Taught By Study of the Inter-
national Sunday school Lesson Appointed for
Feb. IL. st. Mark, , :26-34.
Zone reading these notes should first carefully
study the paragraph from the Holy Scriptures
indicated above.i
SUBJECT: CHRIsr's CURE OF THE WOMAN
GIVEN UP BY THE DoCToRs.
l. Circumstances.
st. Matthew out of great consideration for
our Savior made feast in his honor. This was
at the residence of the ex-publican, in the city
of Capernaum. At that supper Jesus uttered
several telling parallels While he was thus
giving sort of post-prandial talk, one of the
Jewish rulers of the synagog IN Capernaum,
named Jairus, entered the house, lnterruptIng
Chirst's instructions and begging him to come
over at once to his house and cure his daughter,
who was so very sick as not to be expected to
live. Jairus lived in another part of the city,
and Christ set out TO accompany him over TO
the house where lay the sick girl. Quite
procession was formed, for Christ's Disciples and
a goodly number Of the people OF Capernaum
Joined Christ and Jairus in the walk from
Lewis house to that of the ruler. In the crowd
following was a very diseased woman, anxious
for cure, and believing Christ could relieve her.
g Data.
The student must not be content with the
account given by St. Mark, but also read care
fully the reports of ST. Matthew 70: 20-22) and
st. Luke. (S 43-4S.) St. Matthew simply states
the facts st. Mark account is lull, as would be
expected from an eyewitness Since, as is
supposed, st. Mark simply penned for st. Peter,
we see the account was probably furnished by
the very one who spoke out in answer to
Christ's question, expressing surprise Jesus
should want to know who touched him, when
the fact was that the hosts of persons We're all
the time coming in contact with him and no
special one could be particularized (St. Luke,
8i45.) The account by st. Luke bears evil
dence of authorship by physician, as indeed
ST. Luke really was.
8. Time.
This miracle which we study now took place
A. d. 27, probably in the month of November.
This was in the third year of Christ's ministry
and the thirty third of his life. We go back
1862 years.
A. Place.
The woman was cured at Capernaum, some
where between the residence of ST. Matthew and
that of Jairus. 1t took place out in the street.
| The large part of Christs miracles was per-
formed in Galilee. A greater number were
effected in Capernaum than in any other one
place, and hence its exaltation. tSt Matt,
IL 23.) Twenty out of his 80 miracles took
place in Galilee-more than oue-half of them.
Fourteen, or more than one-third, were per-
formed in Capernaum.
5. Patient
The person healed was woman. We re-
member that the mother of st, Peters wife
| was cured of a fever; the daughter Of the Syro-
| Phenician woman was restored the daughter
| of ,Jairus was brought to life; woman was
| cured of an infiTmity OF Is years duration.
! Our Lord was on way to raise to life little
girl when he paused 10 cure the woman about
| whom we study this week. There is legend
! that her name was ST Veronica. On the start
| she was seemingly quite wealthy, but she had
! become poor through doctors bills and ina
| bility to acquire money. She had, as Lange
puts it, an agony of faith" She expected to
| be cured without Christ discovering the fact.
! So to speak, she attempted TO steal the remedy.
| She was violating the law of Moses by thrust
| ing herself among men and women. LEV,
| Is: 25.) Hers was deceptive course Con-
scious she was ceremonially unclean, and by
right subject to be shut out from society, she is
afraid to have any discovery made of her con-
diton. 1t is no wonder she was SO shy.
6. TIE Doctor.
The Physician who cured the woman was
| Christ. Nobody else could cure her. She had
tried all others, and Jesus was her last resort.
A large part of Christ's work was the healing
of the sick.
7. The Disease
| The woman was afflicted with chronic or
| frequently-recurring hemorrhage. She had
been thus afflicted for IL years. The disorder
began when the daughter of Jarius was born
| (St Luke, 8:43.) IL was disease. (St. Matt.
| 8: 20) 1t was ineurable from human stand
point. The sufferer had sought medical assist
ance from "many physicians" (St. Mark
5: co. Her disorder was painful, and the
methods of treatment in those days for such
| disease were torture. Indeed, she had plague
| (St Mark, 5 80 34.) And she kept getting
worse and poorer. At length she gave up all