Mark 5:20-36

²⁰Then that man went all over that country called Ten Towns and told everybody that story. He told them all about the good things Jesus did for him. Everybody got a really big surprise.

²¹Jesus and his followers got back into the boat and went to the other side of the lake. A really big mob of people was waiting for them there beside the water.

²²A man called Jairus came up to them. He was one of the bosses of a Jewish meeting place. He saw Jesus and went close to him and got down on his knees in front of him, to show him respect.

²³He strongly asked Jesus to help his daughter. He said, “My little girl is really sick and I think she will die. Please come and put your hands on her. I know you can make her better so that she will not die.”

²⁴Jesus listened to the man and started to go with him. The big mob of people followed them. They came up really close and pushed up against him Jesus, all around him.

²⁵While they were walking along, a sick woman was there. A long time before this she started bleeding and that bleeding didn’t stop.

²⁶She went to every doctor but none of them could help her. She spent all her money trying to get better, but it was no good, she only got worse. She kept bleeding for 12 years.

²⁷Then somebody told her about Jesus and she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his coat, I will get better.” So she came up behind Jesus and touched his coat

²⁹and straight away her bleeding stopped. She knew she was better.

³⁰Jesus knew straight away that power went out from him, so he stopped walking, turned around and asked the people, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹Jesus’s followers said, “There are big mobs of people here pushing up against you. Why do you ask, ‘Who touched me?’ Lots of people touched you.”

³²Jesus kept on looking around to see the person that used his power.

³³That woman knew that she was the one that got better, so she was very frightened and she was shaking. She came to Jesus and got down on her knees in front of him, to show him respect, and she told him her story. She told him that she touched him.

³⁴Jesus said to her, “Dear Lady, you really believed in me, so now you are better. You can go home and have no more trouble. You are not sick any more.”

³⁵While Jesus was talking to the woman, somebody came to Jairus from his house with bad news. He said, “I’m sorry, it’s too late. Your little girl is dead. Don’t worry Jesus now.”

³⁶Jesus heard their words but took no notice. He said to Jairus, “Don’t be frightened. Just trust me.”