For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Parallel translations
- WEB for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
- BSB because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
- NKJV for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him.
- NASB for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.
- NLT His only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went with him, he was surrounded by the crowds.
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Quick answer
Jairus's only daughter, about twelve, is dying, and the crowd presses around Jesus as He goes. The urgency heightens as another need interrupts.
Overview
Luke notes the girl is Jairus's only child and near death, deepening the pathos of the scene. As Jesus moves toward the home, crowds throng Him. The delay that follows will test Jairus's faith while revealing Jesus' compassion for another sufferer.
Cross-references & the web
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- Luke 8:45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
- Luke 7:12Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
- Job 4:20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- Ezek 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
- Ezek 24:25Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
- Mark 5:24And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.
- Rom 5:12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
- Job 1:18–19While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
- Eccl 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
- Gen 44:20–22And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
- Ps 90:5–8Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Zech 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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