Mark 5:23
Good News Translation
and begged him earnestly, "My little daughter is very sick. Please come and place your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!"

New Revised Standard Version
and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.”

Contemporary English Version
and started begging him for help. He said, "My little daughter is about to die! Please come and touch her, so she will get well and live."

New American Bible
and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her that she may get well and live.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.

besought.

Mark 7:25-27 For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet. . . .

Mark 9:21,22 And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy. . . .

2 Samuel 12:15,16 And Nathan returned to his house. The Lord also struck the child which the wife of Urias had borne to David, and his life was despaired of. . . .

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 107:19 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Luke 4:38 And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her.

Luke 7:2,3,12 And the servant of a certain centurion who was dear to him, being sick, was ready to die. . . .

John 4:46,47 He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum. . . .

John 11:3 His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

lay thy hands.

Mark 6:5,6,13 And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick, laying his hands upon them. . . .

Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand upon the sick: and they shall recover.

2 Kings 5:11 Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.

Matthew 8:3 And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

Luke 4:40 And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them.

Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.

Acts 28:8 And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in. And when he had prayed and laid his hands on him, he healed him.

James 5:14,15 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. . . .

Context
The Healing Touch of Jesus
22And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth down at his feet. 23And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live. 24And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him.…
Cross References
Mark 5:24
And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him.

Mark 6:5
And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick, laying his hands upon them.

Mark 7:32
And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.

Mark 8:23
And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town. And spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he saw any thing.

Mark 16:18
They shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand upon the sick: and they shall recover.

Luke 4:40
And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them.

Luke 13:13
And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.

Acts 6:6
These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed hands upon them.

Acts 8:17
Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost.

Acts 9:12
(And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands upon him, that he might receive his sight.)

Acts 9:17
And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Acts 28:8
And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in. And when he had prayed and laid his hands on him, he healed him.

Mark 5:22
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