Taking one of the four gospels and reading it all the way through, from beginning to end, is a valuable thing to do every now and then. And one of things you might notice when you read a gospel, is how much of Jesus’s time was spent not preaching, not recruiting disciples, but healing, finding some of the sick and the troubled in every town either because they seek him out or he seems to seek them out, and touching them, and relieving their pain. Today we have two stories in the gospel. Story number 1: this man called Jairus, whom this translation calls an official of the synagogue. He…