Jairus

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).