Sarah-Zack’s Sister and a Sick Woman (Mark 5)

Shalom. It’s me again. Before I share what happened, apparently people found out about Centurion Marcus Valerius adopted me. He was starting to be made fun of so being a prestigious centurion and all, he found it in his best interest to disown me. Because of that, he is not someone I look up much any more. I mean, would you want grow up to be like someone who disowned you because the going got rough? It's not his fault. I started being made fun of before he did, but it didn't bother me too much because he is a great man. No that he doesn't want to deal with me anymore, I am now an independent Jewish teenager. Now all of those who ridiculed me are satisfied that we have gone our separate ways. That being said I'm off by myself with Jesus to travel with him!

Guess what! After Zack and I saw Jesus sneak away from the crowd, I saw him go off on a boat. It was really stormy when they sailed off but when they got to the middle of the ocean, it suddenly got calm. I was wondering what happened. Well Jesus got off the boat and I went toward him with Zack. Suddenly, someone came up to Jesus and Zack’s father, Jairus, started running towards Jesus. He looked very panicked and scared. Zack’s dad was a synagogue ruler. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet and pleaded to him. Zack looked really confused at why his father was so panicked. We listened as his father said, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” After hearing this, Zack told me that he would meet up with me later and ran towards his house. Meanwhile, since I knew that we were going towards his house, I decided to walk there with Jesus. As I was making my way into the crowd to go close to Jesus, I saw another woman. But people moved away from her as if she had some sort of contagious disease. I asked a girl nearby who that woman was. She told me that she was a woman who had been subject to bleeding for over 12 years. Many different doctors treated her; however, instead of getting better, she grew worse. Now, she lived by herself because she was now an outcast upon society. Even her own family disowned her because she was considered unclean. She did not have anyone to love her because of her disease. I immediately felt sorry that she had no family or friends. I kind of followed her as she went towards Jesus. I was close enough to be going through the crowd with her. As she got closer to Jesus, I heard the woman softly murmuring to herself, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” I watched as she reached towards Jesus’ cloak. After she touched Jesus’ cloak, something seemed different about her. She seemed happy and pain-free. She had been healed. Immediately, Jesus turn and asked, “Why touched my clothes?” I didn’t know how he knew with so many people around him! But the thing is, he didn’t look angry. He looked very calm. His disciples told him that anyone could have touched him because of the crowd around. He kept looking around and I saw the sick woman go towards him. She fell at his feet and she looked terrified. She told him everything that happened. Jesus still was not angry. He smiled and told her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” The woman did not look fearful anymore as she told up. While I was still in shock of what happened, we come closer to Zack’s house. As we got closer, I saw some of the men telling Jairus, “Your father is dead. Why bother the teacher anymore?” However, Jesus came up to Jairus and said, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” Jesus chose some of the disciples to go towards his house and went along. I stopped and listened for a second. I could hear some sort of wailing and moaning in the distance but I did not know what it was. I listened some more as that wailing and moaning turn into a mocking sort of laughter. I heard from someone people talking to each other that the wailing and moaning was for Zack’s sister. But they went on to say that Jesus said that she was only sleeping. I was wondering how someone could confuse someone dead with someone sleeping. Suddenly, Zack came up to me saying that his sister was healed. I asked him what happened up he would not tell me what happened. Jesus told him not to tell anyone. As he said this, I pondered upon what happened and who Jesus really was.