Jarius' Daughter

[Jerry]

If you want to render it in verse 18 as such, verse 24 must be rendered as 'the maid is not dying'.

Not really. Since the Aramaic "perfect" tense can be past, present, or future, it can be nuanced differently from verse to verse, just as a noun can be nuanced from an "indefinite" to a "definite" article within the same context, as in changing "a lord" to "the lord".

Who knows for sure? The girl may have been at the point of imminent death in verse 18, and dead or presumed dead by the time Yeshua arrived. Or she may have been dead or presumed dead from the beginning. Is not the real message of the verse this:

"Such now 'we die' (perfect tense), but with Yeshua, 'we to live' (imperfect tense)."