Jesus and Two Women

Against the backdrop of the ancient world in which women were considered sub-human, Jesus' treatment of the women he encountered, along with the New Creation he would inaugurate with this death and resurrection, declared that the old order under sin and death was passing away and the new order of God's reign was coming into the world. Dr. Liz Marvel preaches on the significance of Jesus' encounter with two women--the bleeding woman and Jairus' daughter--found in Mark 5.