Jairus
   a ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus
   restored to life (Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). Entering into the
   chamber of death, accompanied by Peter and James and John and
   the father and mother of the maiden, he went forward to the bed
   whereon the corpse lay, and said, Talitha cumi, i.e., "Maid,
   arise," and immediately the spirit of the maiden came to her
   again, and she arose straightway; and "at once to strengthen
   that life which had come back to her, and to prove that she was
   indeed no ghost, but had returned to the realities of a mortal
   existence, he commanded to give her something to eat" (Mark
   5:43).