Matthew records in this text two miraculous events. One is the raising from the dead of a twelve-year-old girl. The second is the healing of a woman who had a feminine issue of blood for twelve years. These miracles shake people to the point of submission before the authority of Christ. There is hopelessness without Christ and these states of death and sickness reflect that hopelessness. Christ's healing show HIS compassion and hope! Death and sickness do not have the last word ... Jesus does!