Luke 8:42

because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

In Context

41Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesus’ feet. He begged Him to come to his house,

43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

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Cross References

Genesis 44:20And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Ezekiel 24:16“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Luke 7:12As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:41-56

The Issue of Blood Healed; The Ruler's Daughter Raised. 40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him. 41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him. 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve… Read the whole commentary →

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