Jairus

Jairus, a synagogue leader, sought Jesus to heal his dying daughter.

Jairus was a synagogue leader mentioned in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. He approached Jesus desperately seeking help for his critically ill daughter, who was about twelve years old. In Mrk 5:22-23, Jairus fell at Jesus' feet and pleaded earnestly with him to come and lay hands on his daughter, believing that Jesus could heal her. While Jesus was on his way to Jairus' house, they received news that the girl had died. However, Jesus encouraged Jairus to have faith and continued to his home. There, Jesus took the girl by the hand and commanded her to get up, miraculously bringing her back to life (Mrk 5:41-42; Luk 8:54-55). This event demonstrated Jesus' power over death and his compassion for those in need.

A ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life (Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). Entering into the chamber of death, accompanied by Peter and James and John and the father and mother of the maiden, he went forward to the bed whereon the corpse lay, and said, Talitha cumi, i.e., “Maid, arise,” and immediately the spirit of the maiden came to her again, and she arose straightway; and “at once to strengthen that life which had come back to her, and to prove that she was indeed no ghost, but had returned to the realities of a mortal existence, he commanded to give her something to eat” (Mark 5:43).