When Jairus left his house, his daughter was at the point of death; so he may have thought that by the time he was with Jesus, she quite possibly had already died. Indeed, by the time he arrived, she had passed away, as confirmed by the messenger who brought the account of her death before Jesus came to the house. Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman - When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.
Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she.
Luke 8: 41Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. Meanwhile, the girl died. However, when Jesus got there: 52Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her.
"Stop wailing," Jesus said. "She is not dead but asleep." Why did Jesus say. As for Jairus's daughter being dead or not, I think the key to what Jesus meant is that a common expression for death in ancient cultures was "falling asleep.".
Jairus in the Bible was the father of a 12-year-old girl whom Jesus raised from the dead. Jairus was a ruler in the synagogue of Capernaum (Mark 5:22), so he was a well-known religious leader. Jairus came to Jesus, pleading with Him to come lay His hands on his only daughter, who was near death.
He humbled himself before Jesus, falling down at His feet (Luke 8:41). Jairus expressed faith in. Was Jairus' daughter dead when Jesus met him? Matthew 9:18 says yes, Mark 5:23 says no.
Was Jairus' daughter dead or alive? Raising of Jairus ' Daughter by Paolo Veronese, 1546 The raising of Jairus' daughter is a reported miracle of Jesus that occurs in the synoptic Gospels, where it is interwoven with the account of the healing of a bleeding woman. The narratives can be found in Mark 5:21-43, Matthew 9:18 -26 and Luke 8:40-56. [1][2].
Here the correct sequence of events is that the daughter was not dead yet, but would be before Jesus got to Jairus' house. Matthew just relates that she is dead and doesn't have to add the details about the person coming from Jairus' house to inform Jairus that his daughter was now dead. Some argue that the Bible is contradictory concerning whether Jairus's daughter was dead when he came to see Jesus.
The argument is that Matthew 9:18 says that she was dead, but Mark 5:22-23 and Luke 8:41-42 say that she was near death. However, there is a reasonable explanation that solves this alleged contradiction in the []. Luke 8:41-42 - Was Jairus' Daughter Dead or Near Death When He Came to See Jesus? Problem: God's Word is perfect and cannot contradict itself; therefore, whenever we see two or more passages of Scripture that appear to contradict each other, we need to study the passages in more detail.