Our Gospel for this Sunday immediately follows upon last week’s stories of the raising of Jairus’s daughter and the healing of the woman with a haemorrhage.
It sets the context of our Gospel readings for the next two weeks in which Jesus will extend the work of his ministry to his disciples. The story opens in his hometown, and his disciples follow him. It’s an interesting detail. Jesus is from Nazareth and his disciples are from Galilee. They have walked with him back home. It is an inter