A GIRL RESTORED AND A WOMAN HEALED

40 When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him,a for they were all expecting him.b 41 Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue.c He fell down at Jesus’s feet and pleaded with him to come to his house, 42 because he had an only daughterd about twelve years old, and she was dying.

While he was going, the crowds were nearly crushing him.e