And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years — the twelve years of bleeding exactly matches Jairus's daughter's age (verse 42), creating a numerical connection between the two healings. The bleeding woman's condition is the female discharge of Leviticus 15:25–27 — twelve years of the continuous ritual impurity that would have excluded her from the synagogue, from the community's sacred spaces, from physical contact with the ritually pure. Twelve years is not merely a long time; it is the entire lifetime of the daughter whose death Jairus is racing to prevent.

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