So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him — the journey to Jairus's house is immediately surrounded by the large crowd, which will create the conditions for the interruption of the bleeding woman's healing. The crowd pressing around Jesus is the logistical problem that will produce the touching-in-the-crowd episode: so many people are pressing that a touch from behind is physically indistinguishable from the accidental contact of crowd movement. The crowd that follows Jesus to Jairus's house will also be the witnesses to what happens when news arrives that the daughter has died.

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