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much ­Jesus had done for him. And all the
peo­ple were amazed.
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and
Heals a Sick Woman
21  When ­Jesus
had ­again ­crossed over by
boat to the oth­er side of the lake, a ­large
crowd gath­ered ­a round him ­while he was
by the lake. 22  Then one of the syn­a­gogue
lead­ers, ­named Ja­i­r us, came, and when he
saw ­Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23  He plead­ed
ear­nest­ly with him, “My lit­t le daugh­ter is
dy­ing. ­Please come and put your ­hands on
her so that she will be ­healed and live.”
24  So ­Jesus went with him.
A ­l arge ­c rowd fol­lowed and ­pressed
a round him. 25  And a wom­a n was ­t here
who had been sub­ject to bleed­i ng for
t welve ­years. 26  She had suf­fered a ­g reat
deal un­der the care of many doc­tors and
had ­spent all she had, yet in­stead of get­
ting bet­ter she grew ­worse. 27  When she
heard ­about ­Jesus, she came up be­h ind
him in the ­crowd and ­touched his ­c loak,
28  be­cause she ­t hought, “If I just ­touch his
c lothes, I will be ­healed.” 29  Im­me­d i­ate­ly
her bleed­ing ­stopped and she felt in her
body that she was ­f reed from her suf­fer­
ing.
30  At once ­Jesus re­a l­ized that pow­er had
gone out from him. He ­t urned ­a round in
the ­crowd and ­asked, “Who ­touched my
clothes?”
31  “You see the peo­ple crowd­ing ­against
you,” his dis­ci­ples an­swered, “and yet you
can ask, ‘Who ­touched me?’ ”
32  But ­Jesus kept look­ing ­a round to see
who had done it. 33  Then the wom­a n,
know­ing what had hap­pened to her, came
and fell at his feet and, trem­bling with
fear, told him the ­whole ­truth. 34  He said
to her, “Daugh­ter, your ­faith has ­healed
you. Go in ­peace and be ­freed from your
suf­fer­ing.”
35  While ­Jesus was ­still speak­ing, some
peo­ple came from the ­house of Ja­i ­r us,
the syn­a­gogue lead­er. “Your daugh­ter is
dead,” they said. “Why both­er the teach­er
any­more?”
36  Over­hear­i ng  a what they said, ­Jesus
told him, “Don’t be ­a fraid; just be­lieve.”
37  He did not let any­one fol­low him ex­
cept Pe­ter, ­James and John the broth­er of
James. 38  When they came to the home of
the syn­a­gogue lead­er, ­Jesus saw a com­
mo­t ion, with peo­ple cry­ing and wail­ing
loud­ly. 39  He went in and said to them,
“Why all this com­mo­t ion and wail­ing?
The ­child is not dead but ­asleep.” 40  But
they ­laughed at him.
Af­ter he put them all out, he took the
child’s fa­ther and moth­er and the dis­ci­ples
who were with him, and went in ­where
the ­child was. 41  He took her by the hand
and said to her, “Tal­i­tha koum!” (which
means “Lit­t le girl, I say to you, get up!”).
42  Im­me­d i­ate­ly the girl ­stood up and be­
gan to walk ­a round (she was ­t welve ­years
old). At this they were com­plete­ly as­ton­
ished. 43  He gave ­strict or­ders not to let
any­one know ­about this, and told them to
give her some­thing to eat.
A Prophet Without Honor
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Jesus left ­t here and went to his
home­town, ac­com­pa­n ied by his
dis­c i­ples. 2  When the Sab­b ath
came, he be­gan to ­teach in the syn­a­gogue,
and many who ­heard him were amazed.
“Where did this man get ­these ­things?”
they ­asked. “What’s this wis­dom that has
been giv­en him? What are ­these re­mark­
able mir­a­cles he is per­form­ing? 3  Isn’t this
the car­pen­ter? ­Isn’t this ­Mary’s son and
the broth­er of ­James, Jo­seph,  b Ju­das and
Si­mon? ­A ren’t his sis­ters here with us?”
And they took of­fense at him.
4  Jesus said to them, “A proph­et is not
with­out hon­or ex­cept in his own town,
among his rel­a­tives and in his own ­home.”
5  He ­could not do any mir­a­c les ­t here, ex­
cept lay his ­hands on a few sick peo­ple and
heal them. 6  He was ­amazed at ­their lack
of faith.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Then ­Jesus went ­a round teach­ing from
vil­lage to vil­lage. 7  Call­ing the ­Twelve to
him, he be­gan to send them out two by
two and gave them au­thor­i­t y over im­pure
spir­its.
8  These were his in­s truc­t ions: “Take
noth­ing for the jour­ney ex­cept a ­staff — ​
a  36 
Or Ignoring    b  3  Greek Joses, a variant of Joseph