<p>5:21 <em>And when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great crowd was gathered to him; and he was by the sea</em>- Just as Legion &quot;immediately&quot; met the Lord on His arrival on the shore (:2), so on going back to &quot;the other side&quot;, there was a great crowd waiting for the Lord &quot;by the sea&quot;, on the shore. Jairus must have had to push himself to the front of that crowd (:22). According to the parallel in Mt. 9:18, the Lord began teaching the crowd immediately. Again we see that teaching was the primary focus of His ministry, for surely the crowds were expecting healings. The impression is given in Matthew that the ruler was begging the Lord for the healing of his daughter, but instead the Lord delayed responding in order to complete the teaching He was giving about the vital need for total transformation if we have received the new wine. He felt His message was that important. We also notice something which we see several times in the Gospel records- the Lord appears to not respond to human need, to even be deaf to it. For a while. The reason for that, both then and now, was surely to pique the intensity and urgency of the requests.</p>