Jairus and His Daughter

The words

Mark 5:21–43 (opens a new tab)

1. Bettered

   Made better; improved.

   Mark reports that the woman had suffered under many physicians, spent all she had and was “nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.”

   Mark 5:25–26 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab)

2. Damsel

   A young girl.

   Mark describes Jesus taking the girl’s hand and saying “Talitha cumi”; after she rises and walks, he tells those present to give her something to eat.

   Mark 5:41–43 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab)

3. Daughter

   Luke calls Jairus’s child his only daughter, about twelve years old; Mark also uses “Daughter” as Jesus’s address to the woman who touched his garment.

   Luke 8:41–42 (opens a new tab) · Mark 5:27; Mark 5:34 (opens a new tab)

4. Fountain

   Mark says the “fountain of her blood was dried up” after she touches Jesus’s garment; the NET describes the bleeding stopping before Jesus asks who touched him.

   Mark 5:27–30 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab)

5. Garment

   Mark says the woman comes behind Jesus in the crowd and touches his garment; Luke specifies the border, while the NET calls the garment a cloak.

   Did you know?

   The Met lists the pictured linen fragment’s maximum height and width as 4 1/16 inches (10.3 cm); its record identifies a plain weave.

   Mark 5:27 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:44 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab) · The Met: linen fragment (opens a new tab)

6. Issue of Blood

   Persistent bleeding.

   Mark introduces the woman’s “issue of blood” as lasting twelve years; Luke also gives that duration and says she approaches from behind to touch the garment’s border.

   Mark 5:25 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:43–44 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Luke 8:40-56 (opens a new tab)

7. Jairus

   Mark and Luke name Jairus as a synagogue ruler who falls at Jesus’s feet; Luke specifically records his request that Jesus come into his house.

   Mark 5:22–23 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:41 (opens a new tab)

8. Scorn

   Mark and Luke say those present laugh at Jesus’s statement that the girl sleeps; Luke adds that they knew she was dead.

   Mark 5:39–40 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:52–53 (opens a new tab)

9. Sleepeth

   Mark records Jesus saying the girl “is not dead, but sleepeth”; Luke also gives that statement, while describing the onlookers as knowing she was dead.

   Mark 5:39 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:52–55 (opens a new tab)

10. Talitha Cumi

    Little girl, arise.

    Mark preserves “Talitha cumi” and immediately interprets it as “Damsel, I say unto thee, arise”; Luke gives Jesus’s shorter address, “Maid, arise.”

    Mark 5:41 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:54 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab)

11. Thronged

    Mark describes the crowd thronging Jesus as he goes with Jairus; the disciples later point to that crowd when Jesus asks who touched his clothes.

    Mark 5:22–24; Mark 5:30–31 (opens a new tab)

12. Trembling

    Mark describes the woman coming forward “fearing and trembling” and telling Jesus the truth; Luke reports her explaining before the people why she touched him.

    Mark 5:33 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:47 (opens a new tab)

13. Tumult

    A noisy commotion.

    Mark places the tumult at the synagogue ruler’s house, alongside weeping and loud wailing; the scene follows the message that Jairus’s daughter has died.

    Mark 5:35; Mark 5:38 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab)

14. Virtue

    Mark says Jesus knows “virtue” has gone out from him; Luke gives Jesus’s own statement that he perceives it, and the NET uses “power.”

    Mark 5:30 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:46 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Mark 5:21-43 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Luke 8:40-56 (opens a new tab)

15. Wailed

    Mark pairs weeping with those who “wailed greatly” at Jairus’s house; Luke describes the people there as weeping and bewailing her before Jesus speaks.

    Mark 5:38–39 (opens a new tab) · Luke 8:52 (opens a new tab)