⁴¹ And now a man named Jairus, a leader of a Jewish synagogue, came and fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged him to come home with him, ⁴² for his only child was dying, a little girl twelve years old. Jesus went with him, pushing through the crowds.

^43-44 As they went a woman who wanted to be healed came up behind and touched him, for she had been slowly bleeding for twelve years, and could find no cure (though she had spent everything she had on doctors^[a]). But the instant she touched the edge of his robe, the bleeding stopped.