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Bridgeman Art Library/Art Resource, New York, N.Y.

“Only believe,” Jesus told Jairus before reviving the man’s 12-year-old daughter who had died (Mark 5:21–43; also Matthew 9:18–26 and Luke 8:40–56), an episode rendered in this painting by George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1927). This story teaches that through faith even death may be conquered.