Mark 5:23

23 And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

Mark 5:23 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:23

And besought him greatly
Used much importunity with him, and was very urgent in his requests:

saying, my little daughter lieth at the point of death,
or "is in the last extremity"; just breathing out her last; for she was not actually dead when he left her, though she was before he returned, and was at this time, as he might expect, expiring, or really gone; (See Gill on Matthew 9:18).

[I pray thee] come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be
healed, and she shall live;
expressing faith in the power of Christ to restore his daughter, though in the utmost extremity; yet seemed to think his presence, and the imposition of his hands were necessary to it.

Mark 5:23 In-Context

21 And [after] Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to him, and he was beside the sea.

22 And one of the rulers of the synagogue came--Jairus by name--and [when he] saw him, he fell down at his feet.

23 And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

24 And he went with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing around him.

25 And [there was] a woman who was {suffering from hemorrhages} twelve years.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "has finally"
• [b] Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun