She is their only daughter, so you’ll understand just how much they love her. She’s sick, and nobody has been able to help her, and she’s getting sicker. Her dad is one of the most powerful men in the city but is helpless. Finally, as a last resort, he goes to the last option, the last hope, the carpenter’s son from Nazareth. Watch and hear in awe the mercy extended and the miracle performed for Jairus.
About this Message
Luke chapter 8 is a package of three of Jesus’ powerful miracles of Jesus. Go ahead and scan the record of His control of nature, His victory over demons and, here, His power over illness and even death.
There are two stories here. Separate them and focus on a sick 12-year- old girl and then a woman who has been sick since the girl was born. Do you see that while one is raised from death, the other “gets her life back” physically, emotionally, and socially? What other comparisons and contrasts do you find?
Go Deeper Questions
Review the other two examples of Jesus raising people from the dead in Nain (Luke 7), and in Bethany (John 11). How might you compare these with our story?
Self-sufficiency is, perhaps, one of the greatest sins. It represents a personal commitment to make your life work apart from God. How do you suppose Jairus, as a synagogue ruler in Capernaum, might have been guilty of self-sufficiency? What did God do to mercifully change him?
Do you allow God to disrupt your life in order to bring you to a place of dependent faith? Can you point to a time in your life when this has happened?