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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Two Daughters
Description: As we continue to read from the Gospel of Mark, today’s reading includes two stories of Jesus healing, both somewhat unusual and different from each other. The gospel writer integrates them, setting one inside the other. A synagogue leader comes to Jesus, desperate, because his daughter is at the point of death. In the midst of that, a woman who has been hemorrhaging for years reaches out in the crowd and touches the garment of Jesus. The synagogue leader is well established, but the hemorrhaging woman is poor and desolate. The synagogue leader sets aside his status to approach Je...