A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed

²¹ When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered round him; and he was by the lake.²²Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet²³and begged him repeatedly, ‘My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.’²⁴So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him.²⁵Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years.²⁶She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse.²⁷She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,²⁸for she said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.’²⁹Immediately her haemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.³⁰Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’³¹And his disciples said to him, ‘You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, “Who touched me?” ’³²He looked all round to see who had done it.³³But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.³⁴He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.’ ³⁵ While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, ‘Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?’³⁶But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.’³⁷He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.³⁸When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.³⁹When he had entered, he said to them, ‘Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.’⁴⁰And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.⁴¹He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha cum’, which means, ‘Little girl, get up!’⁴²And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement.⁴³He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Elijah Revives the Widow’s Son

¹⁷ After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.¹⁸She then said to Elijah, ‘What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!’¹⁹But he said to her, ‘Give me your son.’ He took him from her bosom, carried him up into the upper chamber where he was lodging, and laid him on his own bed.²⁰He cried out to the ^Lord, ‘O ^Lord my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?’²¹Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried out to the ^Lord, ‘O ^Lord my God, let this child’s life come into him again.’²²The ^Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.²³Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; then Elijah said, ‘See, your son is alive.’²⁴So the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the ^Lord in your mouth is truth.’