5:21 耶穌坐船又渡到那邊去，就有許多人到他那裡聚集；他正在海邊上。
5:22 有一個管會堂的人，名叫睚魯，來見耶穌，就俯伏在他腳前，
5:23 再三地求他，說：「我的小女兒快要死了，求你去按手在她身上，使她痊癒，得以活了。」
5:24 耶穌就和他同去。有許多人跟隨擁擠他。
5:25 有一個女人，患了十二年的血漏，
5:26 在好些醫生手裡受了許多的苦，又花盡了她所有的，一點也不見好，病勢反倒更重了。
5:27 她聽見耶穌的事，就從後頭來，雜在眾人中間，摸耶穌的衣裳，
5:28 意思說：「我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊癒。」
5:29 於是她血漏的源頭立刻乾了；她便覺得身上的災病好了。
5:30 耶穌頓時心裡覺得有能力從自己身上出去，就在眾人中間轉過來，說：「誰摸我的衣裳？」
5:31 門徒對他說：「你看眾人擁擠你，還說『誰摸我』嗎？」
5:32 耶穌周圍觀看，要見做這事的女人。
5:33 那女人知道在自己身上所成的事，就恐懼戰兢，來俯伏在耶穌跟前，將實情全告訴他。
5:34 耶穌對她說：「女兒，你的信救了你，平平安安地回去吧！你的災病痊癒了。」
5:35 還說話的時候，有人從管會堂的家裡來，說：「你的女兒死了，何必還勞動先生呢？」
5:36 耶穌聽見所說的話，就對管會堂的說：「不要怕，只要信！」
5:37 於是帶著彼得、雅各、和雅各的兄弟約翰同去，不許別人跟隨他。
5:38 他們來到管會堂的家裡；耶穌看見那裡亂嚷，並有人大大地哭泣哀號，
5:39 進到裡面，就對他們說：「為甚麼亂嚷哭泣呢？孩子不是死了，是睡著了。」
5:40 他們就嗤笑耶穌。耶穌把他們都攆出去，就帶著孩子的父母和跟隨的人進了孩子所在的地方，
5:41 就拉著孩子的手，對她說：「大利大，古米！」（翻出來就是說：「閨女，我吩咐你起來！」）
5:42 那閨女立時起來走。他們就大大地驚奇；閨女已經十二歲了。
5:43 耶穌切切地囑咐他們，不要叫人知道這事，又吩咐給她東西吃。
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little 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 large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around 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 around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, 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 Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing[c] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion 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 “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
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在聖經中常常有漢堡式的編排方式，就是重要的事情放在中間，外面再用一個包裝來鋪成，讓人讀了以後，有另外一種感受。這段經文的核心就是血漏十二年的婦人，這是一個折磨，因為在好些醫生手裡受了許多的苦，又花盡了她所有的，一點也不見好，病勢反倒更重了。這樣的絕望如同「死亡」一般，人離了上帝的永死也使如此，是無止盡的受苦，找不到出路：蟲不死、火不滅！(以賽亞書66:24)
然而這樣的「永死」在主耶穌的醫治下卻有轉機，因為她伸手去摸主耶穌的衣裳，心裡想：「我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊癒。」於是她血漏的源頭立刻乾了；她便覺得身上的災病好了。正如約翰福音3章16節說：「上帝愛世人，甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們，叫一切信他的，不致滅亡，反得永生。」
藉由婦人的得新生命，如同出死入生一般的復活！進而延伸到睚魯的女兒之從死裡活，也是經歷到上帝拯救的復活大能！而很巧的是，睚魯的女兒的年紀也是十二歲！
這兩件事，雖然與信心都有關係，但是真正拯救與復活的大能是來自耶穌基督，若不是上帝樂意藉由耶穌基督來行醫治的事情，就沒有復活，也因此「信心」只是管道，最重要是出於上帝的恩典。
所以說到「因信稱義」不是光我們有「信心」就可以，而是上帝主動施恩與憐憫！若不是上帝樂意施恩，人是無法得拯救的！因此，「因信稱義」是強調上帝的信實，不是人的相信！
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