Mark takes special note of the fact that Jesus took this woman by the hand (Mark 1:31). Mark was interested in details like this. In Mark 5:41, you find the young girl who was dead,and Jesus took her by the hand. In Mark 8:23, Jesus took the blind man by the hand. In Mark 9:27, Jesus took the young man with the dumb spirit by the hand and lifted him up. In Mark 9:36–37, “He took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in His arms.” Isn’t it interesting that Mark should point out five times in his little gospel that Jesus touched people? What power that touch had!
Theme: The Life of a Servant
SCRIPTURE
Mark 1:29-34
And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.
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