Mark 5:21-43 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. Seeing him, he fell at Jesus’ feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her that she may get well and live.” Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed him. Among them was a woman afflicted with a hemorrhage for twelve years. She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and spent all she had, yet instead of getting better, she only grew worse. She had heard about Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his cloak, believing “If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured.” Immediately her flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?” The disciples replied that the crowd was pressing around him, yet he looked around to see who had done it. The woman, trembling with fear and knowing what had happened, came forward and, falling before him, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.” While he was still speaking, some people came from the house of the synagogue official to say that his daughter had died. But Jesus overheard and said to him, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” He let no one follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the synagogue official, they saw a commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly. But Jesus said, “Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” They laughed at him, but he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those with him, entered where the child was lying, **took her by the hand, and said, “Talitha koum” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”) ** Immediately the girl got up and began to walk around.