In the Gospel of Mark, Jairus is the synagogue ruler whose daughter Jesus raises.
Mark 5 describes Jairus approaching Jesus and pleading for help because his young daughter is dying. While Jesus is on the way, messengers report that the girl has died. Jesus tells Jairus not to fear and continues to the house, where people are mourning.
Jesus takes the child’s parents and three disciples into the room. Mark records the Aramaic words “Talitha koum,” which he translates as “Little girl, I say to you, get up.” The girl rises and walks, and Jesus instructs that she be given something to eat.
The same episode appears in Matthew and Luke, but Mark supplies the name Jairus and preserves the translated Aramaic expression. Jairus is therefore different from Bartimaeus, the blind beggar healed near Jericho, and from Zacchaeus, the tax collector featured in Luke.