8:40–56 The stories of the resuscitation of Jairus’ daughter and the healing of the woman with the hemorrhage are also derived from Mark (5:21–43). As often is the case, Luke has abbreviated his Marcan material. (Matthew’s version is the briefest; 9:18–25.) The emphasis of both of these episodes is the need to have faith in Jesus. In view of what Jesus has just accomplished on the lake (vv. 22–25) and among the Gerasene people (vv. 26–39), the need to have faith in him becomes all the more compelling. The two stories are linked by the reference to twelve years v. 42, 43), the age of Jairus’ daughter and the length of time that the woman had suffered. The resuscitation of Jairus’ daughter is a counterpart to the earlier resuscitation of the widow’s son (7:11–17). Jesus has raised the only s…