Full-Feature Screenplays

We form mental images of events or people by how we interpret the conversation of others. 

Whether relating to an audience or a single person, speakers may embellish or even present false “stories” to dramatize the message they want to relay.

This is not an argument over Scripture; it is simply to point out how one’s mindset can get stuck believing something heard from another, even if it is obviously errant.

In Mark 5:22-34, we have the account of…  

22…one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw [Jesus], he fell at his feet…

23And besought [Jesus] greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death: I pray you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

[BTW - “She shall live”speaks volumes about Jairus’ faith.] 

24And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him…

Interesting point:  Jairus’ daughter is 12 years of age.

They were walking past a woman with a 12-year issue of blood, who…

27When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 

28For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 

29And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 

30And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 

He stopped walking, and so did the crowd. 

31And his disciples said unto him, You see the multitude thronging you, and you say, Who touched me?

As retold by every person I’ve heard, the woman pain-stakingly struggled reaching out to Him, crawled on the ground, through a crowd on the march to touch the bottom of Jesus’ garment. 

A “crawling” person would have been trampled by the throng. 

People would have tripped over her for that matter, and in anger, most likely kicked her for doing so!

She was NOT on her hands and knees; she was NOT crawling.

If she could crawl (in a robe) faster than they walked, she was healthy enough to get in step with them and make her way through the crowd to the LORD. 

The hem of a garment is NOT only at the bottom of a dress, etc. 

Hems are made on sleeves, front or back closures, necklines for that matter.

This is usually described in an overly dramatic scene of groveling through dust and dirt to reach the lowest part of His clothing. 

Jesus stopped walking when He felt virtue go out of Him.

The crowd of people were in motion when she touched His garment.

Crawling on the ground she would most certainly be injured; fingers broken, kicked everywhere or even killed.

32[Jesus] looked round about to see [who] had done this thing. 

33But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 

She would not fall down if she was already crawling on the ground.

No form of the word “crawl” is even in the KJV Bible.

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Matthew 9:19-21

20Behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind [Jesus], and touched the hem of his garment 

21For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Matthew used the term “hem” again concerning people in Gennesaret. 

[They] besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole. (Matthew 14:36)

No one needed to get on their hands and knees to “only touch the hem.” 

It’s amazing how anyone pictures this woman down in the dirt except to elaborate her desperation, her great need, her earnest desire for healing.

These are all present without embellishment from the speaker.

It forms the wrong image to many people, and apparently for a lifetime. 

My soul has grown tired long ago of men treating the whole subject of Christianity as though it were child’s play.

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Ever gone on a church search, then wondered why the Rules and Regulations are so different?

Is it possible to have a lifestyle that is more than a religious experience which cools and fades away?

How do you deal with those who come against you - especially without cause?

Why and when was the first blood shed?

Can you know through your soul, "It is well!" - no matter what circumstances surround you?

Would you like to envision your name in the Hall of Faith?

Did you know there are five things the Lord CANNOT do?

What has any of this to do with Moses?