Section 9
His raising up a dead girl. In 8:41-42 Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, asked the Lord Jesus to heal his daughter, who was "about twelve years old, and she was dying." While the Lord was on the way to heal the girl, "a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who could not be healed by anyone, approached Him from be hind and touched the fringe of His garment; and instantly her flow of blood stopped" (vv. 43-44). Since this woman's case is merged with the case of the ruler's daughter, and since the twelve years of her sickness are the age of the girl, and they are both females, these cases may be considered a complete case of one person. In this view, the girl was born, so to speak, in the woman's death- sickness and died of it. When the woman's death-sickness was healed by the Man-Savior, the dead girl rose up from death. This signifies that every fallen person is born in the death- sickness of sin and is dead in it (Eph. 2:1). When his death-sickness of sin is dealt with by the Savior's redeeming death (1 Pet. 2:24), he rises up out of death into life (John 5:24-25).
The flow of blood in the case of the woman signifies the leaking out of life. To lose blood means to lose life. This also is an aspect of the condition of today's society. According to the