Mark 5:1-20. The fifth chapter of Mark is often referred to as the Bible chapter for "incurables" because it contains the written record of Christ's confrontations with three humanly incurable cases. First, He had "a divine appointment" with two men who were mentally deranged because of demonic possession. That will be the subject of this first of a three-part study on "The Great Physician". The Lord's second encounter was with a physically disabled woman who had gone to every doctor she could find, and none could cure her of the issue of blood that plagued her for 12 years. The third situation was the most "incurable" of all, from the human perspective, It was death, in this case it was the death of a 12-year old girl, the daughter of a man named Jairus. Both of these situations will be discussed in the second part of this study (see Lesson #61a and b). The three humanly incurable situations of Mark 5 picture man's incurable situation regarding sin. Apart from the healing/saving power of the Great Physician (Jesus Christ), men are the hopeless, helpless victims of Satan (first case of this chapter), of disease (second case), and of death (third case).
