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“Little girl, I say to you, arise.” Immediately great amazement. But He commanded them
the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve strictly that no one should know it, and said
years of age. And they were overcome with that something should be given her to eat.
DAY 26:What do the healings of Mark 5 teach us about faith?
Upon hearing about Jesus, the woman with the flow of blood said to herself,“If only I may
touch His clothes, I shall be made well” (v. 28). Her faith in Jesus’ healing powers was so great that
she believed even indirect contact with Him through His garments would be enough to produce a
cure. Jesus’ response to her touch and healing was that “your faith has made you well” (v. 34). The
form of the Greek verb translated “has made you well,”which can also be rendered “has made you
whole,”indicates that her healing was complete.It is the same Greek word often translated “to save”
and is the normal New Testament word for saving from sin, which strongly suggests that the
woman’s faith also led to spiritual salvation.
Jesus’response to the announced death of Jairus’s daughter was simply,“Do not be afraid;only
believe”(v. 36).The verb is a command for present, continuous action urging Jairus to maintain the
faith he had initially demonstrated in coming to Jesus. Christ knew there was no other proper
response to Jairus’s helpless situation, and He was confident of faith’s outcome (Luke 8:50). Even in
the face of ridicule,Jesus said,“The child is not dead,but sleeping”(v.39).With this figurative expres-
sion, Jesus meant that the girl was not dead in the normal sense, because her condition was tem-
porary and would be reversed (see note on Matt. 9:24; see John 11:11–14; Acts 7:60; 13:36; 1 Cor.
11:30; 15:6,18,20,51; 1 Thess. 4:13,14).

bread. On the first day you shall have a holy
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February 27 convocation; you shall do no customary work
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on it. But you shall offer an offering made by
fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh
Leviticus 23:1–24:23 day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do
no customary work on it.’”
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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23 “Speak to the children of Israel, and 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to
say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which them: ‘When you come into the land which I
you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, give to you, and reap its harvest, then you
these are My feasts. shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your har-
vest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf
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before the LORD, to be accepted on your
behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest
shall wave it. And you shall offer on that day,
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23:2 proclaim to be holy convocations. when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the
These festivals did not involve gatherings of
all Israel in every case. Only the feasts of 1) first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering
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Unleavened Bread; 2) Weeks; and 3) to the LORD. Its grain offering shall be two-
Tabernacles required that all males gather in tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil,
Jerusalem (see Ex. 23:14–17; Deut. 16:16,17). an offering made by fire to the LORD, for a
sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of
wine, one-fourth of a hin. You shall eat nei-
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ther bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain
3 ‘Six days shall work be done, but the sev- until the same day that you have brought an
enth day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy offering to your God; it shall be a statute for-
convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is ever throughout your generations in all your
the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. dwellings.
4 ‘These are the feasts of the LORD, holy con- 15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from
vocations which you shall proclaim at their the day after the Sabbath, from the day that
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appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the you brought the sheaf of the wave offering:
first month at twilight is the LORD’s Passover. seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count
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6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath;
is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the then you shall offer a new grain offering to the
LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened LORD. You shall bring from your dwellings
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