Mark’s Gospelburger

Mark employs an odd literary style to make two great Gospel stories into one: the "Gospelburger". He slices the first story in half (Jairus and his 12-year old daughter who is dying) and slips into the middle another story, the woman suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years. As the two stories are served up as one, it becomes clear they are together a "theophany moment" for the Evangelist: God's presence in Jesus is made manifestly manifest! But not with clouds and booming voices as at the Jordan River or the Mount of Transfiguration, but through that most human of gifts, touch!