A woman and a parents faith

A woman and a parents faith

The following two stories for me help prove the truth of the Bible. I believe this simply because the story was written within living memory of the event and if not true would be counter productive to the fledgling Christian movement.
Luke records,
“Then a man named Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house  because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.  
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.  
She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 
“Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” 
But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” 
Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.  
Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” 
While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher any more.” 
Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” 
When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child’s father and mother.  
Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.” 
They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.  
But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!”  
Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat.  
Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened. 
                                                                                                                      Luke 8:41-56
Here we see two acts of faith that if not true would not be conducive as I said to the fledgling Christian movement.
The fact is this incident and all those recorded in the Bible are true. Jesus is who he said he is, the one and only Son of God.
The authors of the New Testament good and honest documenters of the events in the life of Jesus. Bruce M. Metzger even saying of Luke,
“Luke is a consummate historian, to be ranked in his own right with the great writers of the Greeks.”
           Bruce M. Metzger.
H. G. Wells, (British writer, 1866-1946) When asked which person left the most permanent impression on history, he replied that judging a person’s greatness by historical standards:
“By this test, Jesus stands first.”
“I am a historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very centre of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history"
Kenneth Scott Latourette, former President of American Historic Society
In A History of Christianity wrote,
“It is evidence of His importance, of the effect that He has had upon history and presumably, of the baffling mystery of His being that no other life ever lived on this planet has evoked so huge a volume of literature among so many people and languages, and that, far from ebbing, the flood continues to mount.”
“As the centuries pass by, the evidence is accumulating that measured by its effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. The influence appears to be mounting.”
“No other life lived on this planet has so widely and deeply affected mankind.”
C.S. Lewis said,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                                                                                                       C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
The young girl, the parents of the young girl and the woman mentioned in Luke 8:41-56 believed Jesus was who he said he was.
The question is do you believe Jesus is who he said he was the One and only Son of God. The saviour of mankind.
Think about it.