Mk 5:21-43

• v36: Don't be afraid; just believe. When situation seems helpless to men, Jesus has the power to turn things around--just like he had turn the dead back to live.
• vv25-34: the bleeding woman
• 12 years
• saw many doctors
• suffered a great deal
• spent all she had (not just money, but everything)
• she heard -> came -> touch Jesus' cloak
• v28: so she thought; that's just her wishful thinking, and she got it--she was healed; => first thing is believe!
  
• v30: Jesus felt it (that power had gone out from him); but he knew she was coming, and he knew who she was; yet he asked (for the sake of others), 'Who touched me?'
• v34: your faith has healed you; go in peace and be freed from your suffering; this is the official certificate--now the woman didn't steal it from Jesus, it's given to her; without this she probably won't have the peace of mind because she wouldn't know what Jesus might say about her 'uninvited' request; now she knew, and what a warm feeling that must have been;
• v42: the girl was 12 years old; it's the same year when she was born that the woman mentioned above began to have her disease; both of them got a new life;