Bible Strands
Luke 8:42
because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jairus, a synagogue leader who just fell at Jesus’ feet, is introduced alongside the condition of his household as Jesus begins moving toward him. (1 sentence)
The words — μονογενὴς (monogenēs) literally means "only" or "unique," and δώδεκα (dōdeka) fixes the daughter’s age at twelve years. (1 sentence)
The thread — The pressing crowd motif continues in Mark 5:24 and Luke 8:45, while Luke 7:12 separately records Jesus encountering a widow’s only dead son. (1 sentence)
Why it lands — The text states the daughter was dying at twelve and that crowds pressed around Jesus as He followed Jairus. It asks a reader to recognize that Jesus advances toward a single life while navigating overwhelming physical opposition. (2 sentences)
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The Greek words
King James Version
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Cross-references
- Mark 5:24 So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around Him.
- Luke 7:12 As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
- Luke 8:45 “Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
- Genesis 44:20 And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
- Job 1:18 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 4:20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- Psalms 90:5 You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ezekiel 24:16 “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.