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JAIRUS

(Gk. Iáïros)

The synagogue official (“ruler”) who begged Jesus to heal his terminally ill 12-year-old daughter (Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). In Matthew’s version (Matt. 9:18) the ruler is anonymous, his daughter’s age is not specified, and the girl is already dead. All three Synoptic Gospels intercalate the story of Jesus’ healing of the woman with a hemorrhage between the time of the father’s request and Jesus’ actual resuscitation of the girl (Matt. 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56). Since some reliable manuscripts of Mark also omit the name Jairus, some scholars speculate that Luke added the name because he thought it the equivalent of Heb. yāʿîr (“he will awaken”), a view accepted by those who see this story as a resurrection legend. Several scholars have noted the similarities between the account of Jesus’ healing of Jairus’ daughter and Peter’s resuscitation of Tabitha (Dorcas) in Acts 9:36-43.

Jeffrey T. Tucker






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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