The Life of Jesus

His talmidim responded, "You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, `Who touched me?'"

But he kept looking around to see who had done it.

The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.

"Daughter," he said to her, "your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease."

While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official's house came, saying, "Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?"

Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, "Don't be afraid, just keep trusting."

He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya`akov and Yochanan, Ya`akov's brother.

When they came to the synagogue official's house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.

On entering, he said to them, "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead, she's just asleep!"

And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child's father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.

Taking her by the hand, he said to her, "Talita, kumi!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!").

At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed.

He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat.

Then Yeshua left and went to his home town, and his talmidim followed him.

On Shabbat he started to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They asked, "Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom he has been given? What are these miracles worked through him?

Isn't he just the carpenter? the son of Miryam? the brother of Ya`akov and Yosi and Y'hudah and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

But Yeshua said to them. "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house."

So he could do no miracles there, other than lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

He was amazed at their lack of trust. Then he went through the surrounding towns and villages, teaching.

Yeshua summoned the Twelve and started sending them out in pairs, giving them authority over the unclean spirits.

He instructed them, "Take nothing for your trip except a walking stick -- no bread, no pack, no money in your belt.

Wear shoes but not an extra shirt.

Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place;

and if the people of some place will not welcome you, and they refuse to hear you, then, as you leave, shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them."

So they set out and preached that people should turn from sin to God,