<p>9:22&nbsp;<em>But Jesus turning and seeing her, said</em>- Again the emphasis is upon recording the physical movement of the persons involved in the scene, so that we can visually reconstruct it. The Gospel records, Luke especially, often record how the Lord turned and spoke to His followers- as if He was in the habit of walking ahead of them, with them following (Lk. 7:9,44,55; 10:23; 14:25; 23:28; Mt. 9:22; Jn. 1:38). Peter thought that following the Lord was not so hard, because he was literally following Jesus around first century Israel, and identifying himself with His cause. But he simply failed to make the connection between following and cross carrying. And we too can agree to follow the Lord without realizing that it means laying down our lives. &nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Daughter</em>- Perhaps the Lord was using the term in the Hebraic sense of 'descendant', seeing her as a daughter of Abraham because of her faith in Him.</p>
<p><em>Be of good courage</em>- The language has clear parallels with the healing of the paralyzed man recorded earlier in 9:2. &quot;Son&quot; there is matched by &quot;daughter&quot; here, and is followed by the same &quot;be of good comfort&quot;. This phrase is used by the Lord four times in the Gospels (Mt. 9:2,22; 14:27; Jn. 16:33); like all of us, He had some phrases He liked to use. But after His resurrection, He used the same phrase when He appeared to Paul (Acts 23:11). He is the same today as yesterday (Heb. 13:8), even down to His word choice and style of speaking. The Jesus whom we shall meet at judgment day is the same Jesus who walked around Galilee; and likewise, our essential personality will be continued eternally throughout the Kingdom. Our spirit will be saved (1 Cor. 5:5), just as His was.</p>
<p><em>Your faith has healed you. And the woman was healed at that moment</em>- The emphasis was on the word &quot;faith&quot;; see on 9:21. The&nbsp;<em>faith</em>&nbsp;of the sick woman is commended by the Lord- when it was due to her&nbsp;<em>understanding</em>&nbsp;of the significance of the&nbsp;<em>hem</em>&nbsp;of the Lord's robe that she had touched Him. She had perceived the connection with the High Priest's hem; perhaps too she had added Job's comment about our touching but the hem of God's garment into the equation. And certainly she perceived that the sun of righteousness of Mal. 4 had healing in his hems / wings of his garment.</p>
<p>The Centurion&rsquo;s servant was healed for the sake of&nbsp;<em>his</em>&nbsp;faith; Jairus&rsquo; daughter was healed because of&nbsp;<em>his</em>&nbsp;faith (Mk. 5:36). Hence the Lord told them to believe and stop wavering, so that she would be made whole, or &ldquo;saved&rdquo; (Lk. 8:50). This comes straight after the Lord&rsquo;s commendation of the woman with &ldquo;an issue of blood&rdquo;: &ldquo;Thy faith hath made thee whole [or, saved]&rdquo; (Lk. 8:48). It&rsquo;s as if the two healings are similar in their result- being made whole, or saved- and both required faith. But the woman&rsquo;s own personal faith which led to her healing is paralleled with the faith of the family of the girl who was resurrected.</p>
<p>Luke adds: &ldquo;There comes one from the ruler of the synagogue&rsquo;s house, saying to him, Your daughter is dead, trouble not the Master&rdquo; (Lk. 8:49). We naturally ask:&nbsp;<em>who</em>&nbsp;was this &ldquo;one&rdquo; who came with this message? In the Gospels, it is often the disciples who term Jesus &ldquo;the Master&rdquo;. The implication is that it was they who thought that Jesus wouldn&rsquo;t have the power to raise the dead, perhaps connecting with their own studied lack of faith in His resurrection later. And the Lord goes on to calm them: &ldquo;Do not fear&nbsp;<em>but&nbsp;</em>believe&rdquo; (Lk. 8:50). This shows the power of fear- it is fear which stops faith, fear is the opposite of faith. If we know the love that casts out fear, then a whole new style of relationships becomes possible. In so many relationships there is a balance of power which is more realistically a balance of fear- a fear of losing, of being made to look small, a fighting back with self-affirmation against the fear of being subsumed by the other. Be it parents and kids, teachers and students, pastor and flock, so often both sides fear the other. Yet if we are truly affirmed in Christ, no longer seeking victory because we have found victory in Him, His victories become ours&hellip; then our whole positioning in relationships becomes so different. For example, our fear of rejection becomes less significant if we believe firmly in our acceptance in the eyes of the Lord, the only one whose judgment has ultimate value. If we can say with Paul that for us the judgment of others has very little value, because we only have one judge&hellip; then we will no longer worrying about acting in such a way as to impress others. No longer will it be so important to not express our inner thoughts about people or situations for fear of not using the constant &lsquo;nicespeak&rsquo; which results in judgment from others unless it&rsquo;s used. There will be a congruence between what we feel and think within us, and what we actually show. And thus we will avoid the dysfunction which is so apparent in so many, as they forever struggle to control their outward expressions, hiding their real self, with the real self and the external self struggling against each other in a painful dis-ease.</p>