Mark 5:23

My little daughter His "only daughter," Luke 8:42. The use of diminutives is characteristic of St Mark. Here we have "little daughter;" in Mark 5:41 "damsel," or "little maid;" in Mark 7:27, "dogs = "little dogs," "whelps;" in Mark 8:7, a few" small fishes;" in Mark 14:47, his ear, literally "a little ear." She was about 12 years of age, Luke 8:42.

at the point of death The original word here used is one of the frequent Latinisms of St Mark. See Introduction. She lay a dying (Luke 8:42), and all but gone when he left her, the sands of life ebbing out so fast, that he could even say of her that she was "dead" (Matthew 9:18), at one moment expressing himself in one language, at the next in another.