I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. This is the Mark Series part 17, 17 now in the Mark Series and today we talk about Jesus

raising the dead and healing a woman with a chronic illness and I think that this passage

is probably the best example in the Gospel of Mark of something really unique to the Gospel of Mark and that's something I talked about previously called a Mark and Sandwich.

A Mark and Sandwich. It's like a literary technique that Mark uses that has been observed by those who read his book, you know.

The Mark and sandwich is like this. You know, think of Mark starting a story, and that's like a piece of bread in the sandwich and then

there's the end of the story that would be the other piece of bread in the

sandwich but what Mark does is it's like he opens the bread and he sticks a

different story in the middle.

So he has two stories, but they're not one after the other, rather one interrupts the other.

And that's what we have in this Markin sandwich.

So we'll talk about that today. The story of Jesus raising this

girl from the dead is interrupted by him healing this woman of her 12 year

chronic illness. And I'm going to say this, these stories could easily have been just told

separately, right? Like it just told like different events because they were

different things. And while they did happen in this order, they're also

recorded in this order for a reason.

So I think that that's where we can gain insights.

We can ask, hey, if I see a Markin sandwich, these two stories one put inside the other,

there must be some relation between them.

There must be some lesson that I'm to learn,

some giving, being given an interpretation in a sense through the way it's done.

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