³⁸ A man in the crowd called out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,^(A) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴¹ Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader,^(A) came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house ⁴² because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.

¹² As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

Mourning for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^[a](A) of grace and supplication.^(B) They will look on^[b] me, the one they have pierced,^(C) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,^(D) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.^(E)

²² A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David,^(A) have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”^(B)

²⁰ And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.^(A) His brother is dead,^(B) and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’^(C)