LECTION 22 - The Restoration Of Iairus' Daughter
The Restoration Of Iairus' Daughter
1. AND behold there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Iairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and he besought him greatly, saying,
My little daughter lieth at the point of death; I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall live.
And Iesus went with him, and much people followed him and thronged him.
2. AND a certain woman (which had an issue of blood twelve years) and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.
3. When she had heard of Iesus, she came in the press behind and touched his garments For she said,
If I may touch but his garment, I shall be whole.
Find straightway the fountain (of her blood) was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
4. And Iesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said,
Who touched my vesture?
And his disciples said unto him,
Thou seest the multitude thronging thee and sayeth thou, Who touched me?
5. And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said unto her,
Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy plague.
6. WHILE he yet spake, there came from the ruler (of the synagogue’s house) certain which said,
Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further ?
7. As soon as Iesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler (of the synagogue)
Be not afraid, only believe.
And he suffered no man to follow him save Peter and James and John (the brother of James).
8. And he cometh to the house of the ruler (of the synagogue) and seeth the tumult and the minstrels, and them that lamented and wailed greatly.
9. And when he was come in he said unto him,
Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn, for they thought she was dead, and believed him not. But when he had put them all out, he taketh two of his disciples with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying.
10. And he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her,
Talitha cumi
(which is, being interpreted) Damsel, I say unto thee arise.
11. And straightway the damsel arose and walked. And she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
12. And he charged them straightly that no man should make it known, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
LECTION 22 -The daily increasing discoveries in modern times of cases of trance or of suspended animation, in which those carried to burial certified as dead by medical men have revived, suggest the thought how much more numerous must have been such cases in days when medical science knew little or nothing of the symptoms of real death. When it is now ascertained that five per thousand on an average are restored to life who have been certified dead or carried to burial, how many more such cases must have occurred in those times when true physicians and magnetic healers were looked upon almost as gods?