In God’s kingdom, Jairus’s reputation, rank, gender, money, and even religious pedigree hold no sway with Jesus. Though the bleeding woman has none of these things to her advantage, she has the one thing Jesus is looking for: faith.1 It is by faith alone that she reaches out to touch Jesus. In this way, she is lifted above all by Jesus and serves as the foremost example in Mark 4:35 – 5:43 of how to respond to him.2
21 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.