1. Outcast: the Woman with the Haemorrhage To describe an examples of Jesus healing women outcasts To evaluate the importance of faith in Jesus’ healings Why was the woman afraid, and only touched Jesus secretly? Using Mk 5:25-34, 1.Complete the gaps in the story & stick in. 2.What made the woman afraid to come up to Jesus in public? 3.Why do you think Jesus made a fuss of identifying her? What else did he want to communicate to her? *Draw a stick picture of the woman touching Jesus & add in 2 things Jesus said. A woman had menstrual bleeding for __ years, had spent all her money on doctors, but ………. She heard about Jesus and came up _______ him in a crowd. She believed if she could only …………, she would be healed. When she did this, she felt the flow of blood dry up and she knew she was _____. Jesus felt the _____ go out of him and stopped. He asked “____________”. His disciples thought this was a ridiculous question, because........... Jesus kept asking until the woman owned up, afraid. But Jesus reassured her, and told her kindly that “…………….”.

2. Explain what the healing miracles show about Jesus. (3marks) That Jesus had power / that God’s power worked though him / that he met needs that people had e.g. he saved the Greek woman’s daughter / he was doing God’s work / Jesus was kind / thoughtful / cared about the sick / he brought Jairus’ daughter back from the dead / he could heal just through the faith of the person as in the woman with haemorrhages / he could do the apparently impossible / that he could respond to need without the person necessarily having faith.

3. Jairus’ Daughter: Curing the Dead This event happens just after the woman with the haemorrhage is cured. What is different about this miracle story from the ones we have already looked at? 1.Who was Jairus and how did he show his desperation? 2.What did the men who came up tell Jairus? 3.How did Jesus respond? 4.Who did Jesus take with him? 5.What did Jesus do & say, in the girl’s room? 6.What advice did Jesus give the parents? **How would Jesus’ response “She is only sleeping” be important for Christians mourning death today?

4. Come out into the middle. Stretch out your hand. Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? “Who touched me?”…“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” “It is not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”..”Ah, Sir, but even the house dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the children’s table.”…”For such a reply you may go, the demon has gone out of your daughter.” “If you are willing, you can make me clean!”…”I am willing! Be clean!” A B C D

5. “Jesus needed to see faith before he cured anyone. Discuss”. Christ did not require faith for everyone, before he healed them. Sometimes, the person had faith and asked Jesus Sometimes, Jesus just cured people who did not ask for a cure, or show faith It was faith in Jesus that was needed, not faith to believe it could happen. Faith needed Man with leprosy – the man knows Jesus can heal him “if he is willing” – this shows he has faith. Seeing this, Jesus has pity for him & heals him. Greek woman with possessed daughter – Jesus tested her faith when he tried to put her off by calling her a dog. Faith not needed Man with withered hand – he was brought in by the Jews to trap Jesus about healing on the Sabbath: he didn’t ask for a cure or show faith. Woman with haemorrhage – Jesus’s power healed her “automatically”, without seeing her, but he later complimented her on her faith 1. Which of the cures so far, needed faith, and which didn’t ? Give examples & describe why faith was or was not needed man with withered hand greek woman with possessed daughter woman with haemorrhage man with leprosy 2. What sort of faith does Jesus expect? **Why do you think Jesus does sometimes emphasise faith as the reason for the cure? What is so important about faith?

6. Can death be “healed”? A.Fundamentalist Christians B.Conservative Christians (Catholic) C.Liberal Christians With your partner, explain your A B or C point of view on the card. (read p.113 “significance” & identify the relevant viewpoint, to help you) **Do the details ( what Jesus said to the parents) make it more convincing that this was written from eyewitness evidence? Eg Peter? Present to the class. Who do you think is correct? 1.Write down what your point of view is about what happened. 2.Explain why you don’t agree with another point of view. *Does it matter if the incident didn’t happen as Mark said? Do you think meaning is more important than detail?

7. Can miracles happen? YES Yes, because miracles show God’s freedom and power and goodness: laws of science can’t prevent Him from acting Yes, because suffering is linked to sin. Jesus came to forgive sin & destroy the power of evil. Miracles prove this is true. Yes because Jesus was God’s son and could prove this by loving, healing miracles. NO Contradicts how science says the world works – so can’t be true Contradicts God’s creation – why would God want to change the way He created things to be in the first place? That can’t be possible. Causes disappointment – people hope for miracles that don’t happen, only to a lucky few. A fair or loving God would not raise people’s expectations falsely. Give your own point of view on whether miracles can happen, by using 2 or 3 of these arguments.