Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

Most people in the modern world don't know how to grapple with death.

We don't love to talk about it. We don't often think about it. We say

someone passed away, went to sleep. We shy away from telling children about even the word death.

We try to protect them in the same way we want to protect ourselves from death. We live our lives

far removed from the reality of death. People live longer.

Oftentimes they die in a hospital or a nursing home.

Someone else takes care of their body, puts it in a casket, and buries it for us.

Some people like Brian Johnson, the tech millionaire, are even attempting to use technology to achieve immortality.

And yet, despite his best efforts to maintain a biologically

young age, at any moment, he could be hit by a car. Now, if there's something absolutely certain

in this world, it is that we are all going to die. Our bodies are slowly decaying. The modern luxury of being able to distract ourselves

from the reality of death or being able to remain removed from the actual process of death

was not one that was afforded to people for centuries before us. In the ancient Near East,

the world where Jesus lived and taught, death was

constantly a reality, a companion. You had to face it. It was a part of life. A reality that

no one pretended wasn't ever looming. And today's passage, well, it picks up in the middle of a story.

Jairus, who's a synagogue leader, has come to Jesus to help him heal his daughter who is sick.

But yesterday, we saw that on his way to heal the daughter, Jesus pauses to heal another woman

who is desperately sick as well. And that's where our story picks up. Mark 5, verse 35. While Jesus was still speaking,

some people came from the House of Jairus, the synagogue leader. Your daughter is dead, they said.

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