Mark 5:21-43 is one story about Jesus and Jairus’ twelve-year-old, deceased daughter representing grace, as opposed to the lady with the twelve-year menstrual flow of blood representing law. Both of them were under the Old Testament Law, but the OT Law placed Jairus’ twelve-year-old daughter in a very different situation than the lady with the twelve-year menstrual cycle.
Since Scripture does not fully explain every detail about these two miracles, thus, we will assume or imagine some details as we compare these two events. Therefore, we will assume Jairus’s daughter was born the same day the lady’s nonstop, menstrual flow began, but Jairus’ daughter’s menstrual cycle had not begun when she died, which meant Jairus’s daughter was not bound by the Jewish law of Leviticus 15:19-31, as was the woman with the twelve-year discharge of blood.
Our assumption means Jairus’ daughter was free to touch her daddy, Jairus, hug him, sit in his lap, eat every meal with him, and let him take her in his arms and carry her to bed, so he could “tuck her in”, for she was daddy’s girl for him to love and receive her love. Yet the OT Law prohibited the woman with the twelve-year discharge of blood to touch anyone, including her daddy, nor did the OT Law permit her daddy to touch her; thus, for twelve years, this poor, miserable, forsaken, lonely, and secluded female human being God had created, was ostracized by His law that Galatians 3:19-25 says, the law’s only purpose was to bring us to Christ, for God made it impossible to obey His O T Law; thus, only Jesus, God in the flesh, could do that for us.
Every other part of the O T Law applied to Jairus’ daughter, except [in our assumption she had not yet begun her blood discharge]; therefore, we are using her freedom from the Law to represent the grace of God that came through Jesus Christ; whereas, the O T Law came through Moses, as says John 1:17; therefore, the only purpose for the “law through Moses” was to bring us to Jesus Christ, through whom came grace and truth.
If Jairus’ daughter had started her cycle at age twelve, then she and the lady with the twelve-year cycle would both be bound by the law of God, through Moses, but since we are assuming she had not started her cycle of blood, when she died, grace and truth that came through Jesus Christ freed her from the law that came through Moses; thus, 2 Samuel 8:1-2, where King David’s choice of which Moabite would die and which Moabite would live, gives us a good word-picture of which female in Mark 5 was twelve-years free from the Jewish law and which female suffered intently under the Jewish law, for no other reason than how God created her body to function in child-birth, for it depended on how God arranged the two precious female human beings in their generations. We never blame God for anything, but we credit God with everything. Without Him nothing exists.
Assume, or suppose while King David’s soldiers were putting these captured Moabites in line, one Moabite soldier quickly stepped into the opposite line to be with his brother; thus, when the choice that every other man died and every other man lived, then one of the brothers died and the other lived, but if the brother had stayed in line where he was originally placed, then both brothers might have lived, but this is only an assumption in our showing how law and grace differ.
Now we can stop assuming and review facts of Scripture, for Jesus Christ is resurrection life; and the Lord our healer; thus, Jairus’ daughter could not remain dead in the presence of “Resurrection Life”, nor could the lady’s blood discharge continue flowing in the presence of “The Lord our Healer”.
Everything changes when Jesus, the resurrected Christ, is present, and WOW, Hebrews 13:5-6 assures us He is always present in every detail of everything we face in life. GLORY TO GOD!!!
Now to nail it down so we do not forget it! Romans 5:1-5 shows us it is impossible to access or get into the grace that came through Jesus Christ, without faith; because, by faith, we first have to be justified or forgiven of all sin, before we can get into the grace and truth that came through Jesus Christ. In other words, we must first believe what God says about His Son, Jesus Christ, so we receive Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior, Salvation, Master, Creator, and Owner, and then by believing and asking to be baptized into the Holy Spirit, we will enjoy sweet relationship with Christ as a member of His body, the church worldwide. By “church” is meant Christ’s bride and body, Christ built, of which He is Head, the “church” that Satan cannot destroy (Matthew 16:16-18); therefore, this is not meaning the local “church”.
Jim and Tim Nabors
