Matthew 9:18-26

While he was telling them this, one of the leading officials came and bowed before him. “My daughter has just died,” the man told Jesus. “But if you come and place your hand on her, I know she will come back to life.” Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him. At that moment a woman who had been sick with bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the hem of his cloak. She had told herself, “If I can just touch his cloak, I'll be healed.” Jesus turned and saw her. “Be happy, for your trust in me has healed you,” he told her. The woman was immediately healed. Jesus arrived at the official's house. He saw the flute-players and the crowd that was weeping loudly. “Please leave,” he told them, “For the girl isn't dead, she's just asleep.” But they laughed and made fun of him. But once the crowd had been sent out, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up. News of what happened spread throughout that region.