“For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.”
Because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him — his only daughter (thygater monogenēs autō, only-begotten daughter) who is about twelve and dying — the detail of being the only child intensifies the urgency and the father's grief. The crowds almost crushing Jesus communicates the logistical challenge of the journey — the same crowd that provides the context for the next healing.
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