Matthew 9:18

While he spake these things. [Jairus’ Daughter and the Invalid Woman, Matt. 9:18-26=Mark 5:21-43=Luke 8:40-56. Major comment: Mark.] Matthew states that it was during the discussion recorded in vs. 14-17 that Jairus (see Mark 5:22) came to Christ. Couple with this the statement in DA 342 that Jairus found Christ at the home of Matthew, and it becomes clear that there is a close chronological relationship between the feast in Matthew’s home, the protest of the Pharisees about Christ’s eating with “publicans and sinners,” the question about fasting, and the raising of Jairus’ daughter.

Even now dead. From the narrative as given in Mark (see ch. 5:23, 35) and Luke (see ch. 8:42, 49) it is clear that the girl was not actually dead when Jairus made his request, but was, as we would say, “all but dead.” Matthew’s statement is not to be considered in disagreement with those of Mark and Luke; rather, according to Matthew, the father speaks of death as being certain unless Christ intervenes. Whether the father knew of the raising of the son of the widow at Nain, which had taken place shortly before this (see on Luke 7:11), it is not possible to say. Most likely he had heard the report.