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Narrative: Open My Mouth in a Parable

And Jesus said,
“Somebody hath touched me: For I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.”

And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. And when the woman saw that
she was not hid, she came fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, and falling down
before him, she declared unto him before all the people the truth for what cause she had touched him,
and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her,
“Daughter, be of good comfort: Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of

thy plague.”
While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, which said,
“Thy daughter is dead: Why troublest thou the Master any further?”
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he answered him, saying, unto the ruler of

the synagogue,
“Fear not: Be not afraid, believe only, and she shall be made whole.”
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and
wailed greatly. And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James,

and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her: But he said,
unto them,
“Why make ye this ado, and weep? Weep not; the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.”
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he put them all out, but when

he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him,
and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her,
“Talitha cumi;”
Which is, being interpreted,
“Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.”

And her spirit came again, and straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the
age of twelve years. And he commanded to give her meat. And her parents were astonished: With a

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