Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

I Urge You To Abound In This Grace of Giving Because It Is Beneficial For You!

⁷ But just as you are abounding in everything— in faith and speech and knowledge and all earnestness, and in the love from us in you— I urge that you also be abounding in this grace. ⁸ I am not speaking by way of command, but am proving^[a] through the earnestness of others the genuineness of your love also. ⁹ For you know the grace^[b] of our Lord Jesus Christ— that for your sakes He became-poor while being rich, in order that you might become-rich by the poverty of that One. ¹⁰ And I am giving an opinion in this matter, for this^[c] is beneficial for you, who began-beforehand from last year not only the doing, but the wanting to do. ¹¹ But now indeed complete the doing, so that just as was the eagerness of the wanting, so also may be the completing out of what you have.

A Gift Proportionate To Your Abundance Is Acceptable For Their Need

¹² For if the eagerness is there, it ^[d] is acceptable to whatever degree a person may have, not to-the-degree he does not have. ¹³ For it is not in order that there may be rest^[e] for others, affliction^[f] for you, but out of equality^[g]— ¹⁴ at the present time your abundance^[h] being for the need of those ones, in order that the abundance of those ones also may come-to-be for your need, so that there may be equality. ¹⁵ Just as it has been written [in Ex 16:18], “The one gathering much did not increase^[i], and the one gathering little did not have-less”.

A Synagogue Official Comes To Jesus About His Dying Daughter. Jesus Goes With Him

²¹ And Jesus having crossed-over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd was gathered to Him. And He was beside the sea. ²² And one of the synagogue-officials comes, Jairus by name. And having seen Him, he falls at His feet ²³ and begs Him greatly, saying that “My little-daughter is at the point of death. I beg that having come, You lay Your hands on her in order that she may be restored^[a] and live”. ²⁴ And He departed with him. And a large crowd was following Him, and they were pressing-upon Him.

On The Way, a Woman Touches His Garment And Is Healed Because of Her Faith

²⁵ And a woman^[b]— being in a flow of blood for twelve years, ²⁶ and having suffered many things by many physicians, and having spent everything of hers^[c] and not having been benefitted at all, but rather having come to the worse, ²⁷ having heard about Jesus, having come in the crowd from behind— touched His garment. ²⁸ For she was saying that “If I touch even His garments, I will be restored”. ²⁹ And immediately the fountain^[d] of her blood was dried-up, and she knew in her body that she had been healed from the scourge. ³⁰ And immediately Jesus— having known in Himself the power^[e] having gone forth from Him, having turned around in the crowd— was saying “Who touched My garments?” ³¹ And His disciples were saying to Him, “You see the crowd pressing-upon You and You say ‘Who touched Me?’” ³² And He was looking around to see the one having done this. ³³ And the woman— having become afraid, and while trembling, knowing what had happened to her— came and fell-before Him and told Him the whole truth. ³⁴ And the One said to her, “Daughter, your faith has restored you. Go in peace and be^[f] healthy from your scourge”.

The Daughter Dies Before Jesus Arrives. He Raises Her From The Dead

³⁵ While He is still speaking, they come from [the house of] the synagogue-official, saying that “Your daughter died. Why are you troubling^[g] the Teacher further?” ³⁶ But Jesus, having ignored^[h] the statement being spoken, says to the synagogue-official, “Do not be fearing, only be believing^[i]”. ³⁷ And He did not permit anyone to follow with Him except Peter and James and John (the brother of James). ³⁸ And they come to the house of the synagogue official, and He sees a commotion^[j] and ones weeping and wailing loudly. ³⁹ And having gone in, He says to them, “Why are you being thrown-into-a-commotion, and weeping? The child did not die, but is sleeping”. ⁴⁰ And they were laughing-scornfully at Him. But He, having put everyone out, takes along the father of the child and the mother and the ones with Him, and proceeds in where the child was. ⁴¹ And having taken hold of the hand of the child, He says to her, “Talitha koum” (which being translated is “Little-girl, I say to you, arise”). ⁴² And immediately the little girl stood-up and was walking around (for she was twelve years old). And immediately they were astonished with great astonishment. ⁴³ And He gave-orders to them strictly that no one should know this. And He said that something should be given to her to eat.