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While, these things, he was speaking unto them, lo! a certainruler, came, and began bowing down to him, saying, - My daughter, just now died! But come, and lay thy hand upon, her, and she shall live.

And Jesus, arising, was following him, also his disciples.

And lo! a woman, having a flow of blood twelve years, coming near behind, touched the fringe of his mantle.

For she kept saying within herself, - If only I touch his mantle, I shall be made well!

And, Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, - Take courage! daughter, Thy faith, hath made thee well. And the woman was made well, from that hour.

And, Jesus, coming, into the house of the ruler, and seeing the flute-players and the multitude in confusion, was saying:

Give place! for the maiden died not, but is sleeping. And they began to deride him.

But, when the multitude had been put forth, he went in, and grasped her hand, - and the maiden arose.

And forth went this report, into the whole of that land.