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A ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life. The King James Version names Jairus in 2 verses, from Mark 5:22 to Luke 8:41.
Jairus speaks in 2 verses of the King James Version: 1 in Matthew, 1 in Mark.
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.Matthew 9:18 ›
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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).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
A ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life. The King James Version names Jairus in 2 verses, from Mark 5:22 to Luke 8:41.
In 2 verses of the King James Version, most of them in Matthew. His first words are in Matthew 9:18.