Matthew 9:18-26

Jairas-' Daughter and the Woman with Haemorrhage (Mark 5:21 *, Luke 8:40). Mt. records in nine verses what Mk. takes twenty-three to tell. He again forsakes Mk.'s order, postponing Mark 2:23 to Mark 4:34 till later (chs. 12, 10, 13). Despite his compression Mt. remarks that the woman (? Veronica) touched the sacred tassel (Numbers 15:38) of Jesus-' dress, and that the cure was immediate and permanent (from that hour). As with the paralytic (Matthew 8:10), faith (not magic) expelled both the disease and the sin thought to be linked with it.

In the story of the ruler (i.e. supervisor of synagogue-worship; for other uses of the word see Luke 14:1; Luke 18:18; John 3:1; Acts 4:5), Mt. alone mentions the flute-players among the crowd, which Jesus dismisses more authoritatively than in Mk. and Lk. like Mk., Mt. takes Jesus-' words, not dead but sleepeth, as literally true; Lk. alone clearly indicates a raising from death. The messengers (Mark 5:35), or Jairas himself (Matthew 9:18), were mistaken. Matthew 9:26 replaces the injunction to silence (cf. Matthew 9:30) in Mk. and Lk.; that land (cf. Matthew 9:31) is the district round Capernaum.