Healing of the Dead and the Bleeding

18While he was saying this, a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.” 19Jesus got up and went with him, and so did his disciples.

20Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

22Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

23When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes, 24he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. 25After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up. 26News of this spread through all that region. (Matthew 9:18-26)

Thoughts: These two healings go together and contrast. One is a girl who is dead.  The other is an older woman who was bleeding- hemorrhaging for years.  Both these healings show tremendous humility.  The synagogue ruler knlt and had faith that Jesus could even raise his dead daughter.  The woman said, If I can only touch the edge/tassel of his cloak, I will be healed.  She had no hope in the doctors, or in the medicine of his day.
     The crowd doesn;'t have faith in Jesus.  But the father of the girl and the woman who was bleeding had faith.  Faith unlocks the key to power.  If we do not have faith 2 squelch the power of god.   The power of Jesus to help whe no one else had hope for help should encourage us all to look to God and have faith. 

Prayer: Lord, help me to take heart and to look to you, the Great Physician.