2 Sam 18:9-10, 14, 24-25, 30 - 19: 3 / Mark 5:21-43
Blood is certainly thicker than water. And with that, we can also say that the emotions between family and relations go much deeper than with others.
More so if the emotions are resentment, bitterness and hatred. The closer the relationship is, the thicker and deeper will these emotions go.
We can imagine the feelings and emotions when a son rebels and plots against his father. No culture would accept that and it would not be in the son's favour.
So we can understand why David's commander, Joab had no qualms about thrusting the three lances into Absalom's heart while he was hanging alive in the branches of a great oak.
Such a son is a curse to the family and society and it would be better that he be killed and wiped away from the face of the earth.
Yet, David's reaction to the death of his son, the very son who rebelled and plotted against him and would even kill him, left his followers bewildered and the troops returned back stealthily as if in shame.
David grieved and mourned for his son. After all, blood is thicker than water and David was a good father and he loved his son Absalom.
And it was the same for the synagogue official in the gospel. Jairus fell at the feet of Jesus and pleaded with Him to come and cure his daughter and to save her life.
Yes, blood is thicker than water and any good father will go all the way to do whatever they can for their children, whether they deserve it or not.
Similarly, God our Father will do whatever to love us and save us, even if it means having to sacrifice His only Son for us.
Let us turn from our wayward and sinful ways and return to God our Father and be healed by His love and forgiveness.