page_title: Mark 5
section_title: Jairus' daughter and the woman who touched Jesus' garment
hierarchical_section_title: Mark 5 / Jairus' daughter and the woman who touched Jesus' garment
caption_attribution_description: English: The healing of a bleeding woman, Rome, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter. Deutsch: Die Heilung der blutflüssigen Frau, Rom Marcellinus-Petrus-Katakombe, Lünette eines Arkosoliums (Ausschnitt) – in situ (Wandmalerei; 0,62 x 0,54 m)
context_page_description: Mark 5 is the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Taken with the calming of the sea in Matthew 4:35-41, there are "four striking works [which] follow each other without a break": an exorcism, a healing, and the raising of Jairus' daughter.
context_section_description: On the other side of the lake Jesus is met by a man named Jairus, a Synagogue Ruler (a rich patron of the local house of worship), who begs Jesus to heal his sick, twelve-year-old daughter. Jesus takes only Peter, James, and John. This story does not occur in the Gospel of John. On the way there, a woman who suffers from chronic "bleeding", perhaps menorrhagia or bleeding from fibroids. She sneaks up to Jesus and touches his garment, according to Matt 9:20-22 and Luke 8:43-48 (see also Mark 6:53-56, Mark 6#Healing of the sick of Gennesaret) the "fringe of his cloak"  (Matt 9:20 - NRSV), by which she is healed. He turns to see who and she fearfully confesses. He says "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
  Men arrive and tell Jairus that his daughter is dead. Jesus brushes them off and says "Don't be afraid; just believe." They arrive at the house and everyone is crying loudly. Jesus assures everyone she is not dead, just asleep, goes inside and says to her Talitha kum, telling her to get up, and she does. Unlike the demon possessed man, he tells them not to tell people of these events.
  This account also appears in Matthew 9:18-26 and Luke 8:40-56. Luke keeps the stories of the possessed man and the two women together, but Matthew inserts the story of the paralyzed man, the calling of Matthew, and the parable of the wineskins found in Mark 2 between these two stories.
caption: Illustration from the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter of Jesus healing the bleeding woman.
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