Jesus Beside the Dead Daughter of Jairusby CBPepper
9:24Matthew 9:24
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Jesus entered the house of the ruler Jairus and found minstrels and people making a noisy commotion of mourning over the dead girl. The mourners were making a loud show of grief, and they included women hired according to custom to make an outward display of sorrow. He told them to give place and make room, rebuking them and ordering them to stop weeping and lamenting.
In calling her asleep rather than dead He meant that her death was temporary because He was about to restore her to life. The declaration also shows that to Him death is like sleep, revealing His power over death and to awaken the dead. Those present knew she had died, for they had seen that she was dead and had watched death change her to a pulseless, lifeless and unconscious form. They had seen her lifeless and unconscious, pulseless and dead.
They laughed Him to scorn in unbelief because they did not believe His words. They were indignant that a humble stranger commanded them to cease and claimed she still lived when they had seen her dead. At His command they were put forth and sent out of the room, leaving Him alone with the father and mother and Peter, James and John. Then He took the child by the hand and brought her back to life, and she arose.
Her restoration was a return to mortal life, not the gift of immortality, so she remained subject to death. After the raising, the fame of the miracle went abroad into all that land.
Jesus entered the house of the ruler Jairus and found minstrels and people making a noisy commotion of mourning over the dead girl. The mourners were making a loud show of grief, and they included women hired according to custom to make an outward display of sorrow. He told them to give place and make room, rebuking them and ordering them to stop weeping and lamenting.
In calling her asleep rather than dead He meant that her death was temporary because He was about to restore her to life. The declaration also shows that to Him death is like sleep, revealing His power over death and to awaken the dead. Those present knew she had died, for they had seen that she was dead and had watched death change her to a pulseless, lifeless and unconscious form. They had seen her lifeless and unconscious, pulseless and dead.
They laughed Him to scorn in unbelief because they did not believe His words. They were indignant that a humble stranger commanded them to cease and claimed she still lived when they had seen her dead. At His command they were put forth and sent out of the room, leaving Him alone with the father and mother and Peter, James and John. Then He took the child by the hand and brought her back to life, and she arose.
Her restoration was a return to mortal life, not the gift of immortality, so she remained subject to death. After the raising, the fame of the miracle went abroad into all that land.