Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 9:18

"While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live." — Matthew 9:18 (ASV)

While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

This was grand faith on the ruler's part, believing that the touch of Christ's hand would raise his dead daughter to life; we do not wonder that the Saviour honoured such faith as that at once.