Mark 5:22-24

Mark 5:22

The case of the ruler may be treated as showing the instructive-ness of domestic affliction.

I. It shows the helplessness even of the greatestmen the applicant was a ruler, yet his rulership was of no avail in this case.

II. It shows the helplessness even of the kindestmen the applicant was a father, yet all his yearning affection was unable to suggest a remedy for his afflicted child.

III. It shows the need of Christ in every life.

Parker, City Temple,1871, p. 93.

References: Mark 5:22. W. Hanna, Our Lord's Life on Earth,p. 169. Mark 5:24. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. iv., p. 161.Mark 5:24. Ibid., Plymouth Pulpit Sermons,10th series, p. 425.