‏ Mark 5:38-43

and seeth Jer 9:17-20; Matt 9:23-24, Matt 11:17; Luke 8:52-53; Acts 9:39

not dead Dan 12:2; John 11:11-13; Acts 20:10; 1Cor 11:30; 1Thess 4:13-14, 1Thess 5:10

they Gen 19:14; Neh 2:19; Job 12:4; Ps 22:7, Ps 123:3-4; Luke 16:14; Acts 17:32

when 2Kgs 4:33; Matt 7:6, Matt 9:24-25; Luke 8:53-54

he taketh He took just so many as prudence required, and as were sufficient to prove the reality of the cure; to have permitted the presence of more, might have savoured of ostentation.

took Mark 1:31; Acts 9:40-41

Talitha cumi θμιϊΰ χεξι, which is pure Syriac, the same as in the Syriac version, the proper translation of which is given by the evangelist.

Damsel Mark 1:41; Gen 1:3; Ps 33:9; Luke 7:14-15, Luke 8:54-55; John 5:28-29, John 11:43-44; Rom 4:17; Phil 3:21

Mark 1:27, Mark 4:41, Mark 6:51, Mark 7:37; Acts 3:10-13

he charged Mark 1:43, Mark 3:12, Mark 7:36; Matt 8:4, Matt 9:30, Matt 12:16-18, Matt 17:9; Luke 5:14, Luke 8:56; John 5:41

and commanded This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus incideriṫ "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.

Given Luke 24:30, Luke 24:42-43; Acts 10:41

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