Gospel (Mk 5,21-43) - At that time, when Jesus had once again crossed by boat to the other shore, a large crowd gathered around him and he was standing along the sea. And one of the leaders of the synagogue came, named Jairus, who, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him insistently: "My little daughter is dying: come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be saved and alive." She went with him. A large crowd followed him and gathered around him. Now a woman, who had been bleeding for twelve years and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, spending all her possessions without any advantage, but rather getting worse, having heard about Jesus, came among the crowd and from behind touched his coat. In fact, she said: "If I can even just touch her clothes, I will be saved." And immediately her blood flow stopped and she felt in her body that she was healed of the disease. And immediately Jesus, having realized the strength that had come out of him, turned to the crowd saying: "Who touched my clothes?". His disciples said to him: «You see the crowd gathering around you and you say: “Who touched me?”». He looked around to see the one who had done this. And the woman, afraid and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, she came, she fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her: «Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed of your illness." She was still speaking when they came from the house of the leader of the synagogue to say: «Your daughter is dead. Why are you still bothering the Master?». But Jesus, having heard what they said, said to the ruler of the synagogue: "Do not be afraid, only have faith!". And he suffered no man to follow him, except Peter, and James, and John, the brother of James. They arrived at the house of the leader of the synagogue and he saw a commotion and people crying and screaming loudly. When he entered, he said to them: «Why are you upset and crying? The little girl is not dead, but she is sleeping." And they laughed at him. But he, having thrown them all out, took with him the father and mother of the child and those who were with him and entered where the child was. He took the little girl's hand and said to her: "Talità kum", which means: "Girl, I say to you: get up!". And immediately the girl arose and walked; she was in fact twelve years old. They were struck by great amazement. And she urged them insistently that no one should know about it and told them to feed her.

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

There is like an inseparable bond between Jesus and the crowd. It is his compassion that leads him to live among the men and women of this world, with their joys and their hopes, their sadness and their anxieties, as the Second Vatican Council recalls in Gaudium et Spes. The Gospel has a man, Jairus, and a sick, nameless woman emerge from this crowd. Both, needy, indeed desperate, approach Jesus. Jairus, a local notable, makes his way through the crowd and on his knees implores Jesus: «My little daughter is dying: come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be saved and alive. ». He is a rich man, but powerless in the face of evil. And Jesus immediately "goes with him". How many times does he repeat to his disciples that both the Father who is in heaven and him listen to those who pray with faith! And behold, during the journey a sick woman mixes with the crowd and comes close to Jesus. For twelve years she had been trying to cure herself, without success, spending quite a bit of money. Her illness, a continuous loss of blood, was particular, it made her permanently impure. And she knew that in her condition she couldn't touch anyone. She thinks it's enough just to touch the hem of his cloak. She approaches him from behind, so as not to be recognized. And in fact, no one noticed her. Except Jesus. The disciples only see an anonymous crowd. Jesus sees. Love, as Benedict XVI said, is a heart that he sees. Jesus understood that a strength had come out of him, as the evangelist writes. And love is always also a force that comes out and leads to going out, to meeting the needs of others. This is what happens immediately afterwards with Jairus' daughter. Upon hearing the news that the girl has died, Jairus resigns himself to the inevitable. But Jesus - to everyone's dismay - invites him not to lose hope and to follow him. Next to the little girl - twelve years old, the same years as the haemorrhoid's illness - he calls her: "Girl, I say to you: get up!", the same verb used for the resurrection, he takes her by the hand and puts her on her feet. Jesus is the face of God's mercy who is stronger than evil and death.