Jairus: 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)
