ABSTRACT
One finds, a re-telling of stories and a reshaping of the Jesus narrative so that the emphases are quite distinct. In turning to the gospel of Matthew and its characterization of women healing in the context of the Matthean construction of a health care system, one notes that the same stories of healing women are recounted as in the gospel of Mark. In the Matthean account, the touching of her hand is the instrument of healing and it is this action rather than the Markan raising up which causes the fever to leave. In the ongoing activity of diakonia, Peter's mother-in-law continues, beyond the healing transformation, to carry in her body the having-been-raised-ness of Jesus as well as the diakonia which, characterizes Jesus' own ministry. Both Peter's mother-in-law and the young girl are labelled anew as having been lifted or raised up reversing paralysis and death.
