His only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went with him, he was surrounded by the crowds.
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.
- KJV For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged 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.
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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 8:45Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
- Luke 7:12Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
- Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
- Ezek 24:16Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
- Ezek 24:25You, 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 heart, their sons and their daughters,
- Mark 5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
- Rom 5:12Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Job 1:18–19While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Eccl 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Gen 44:20–22We said to 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 loves him.’
- Ps 90:5–8You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
- Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
- Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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