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Matthew 9:24
He said unto them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed Him to scorn.
He said unto them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed Him to scorn.
Verse Matthew 9:24. _THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH_] That is, she is not dead so as to _continue_ under the power of death; but shall be raised from it as a, person is from natural sleep. _THEY...
The account contained in these verses is also recorded, with some additional circumstances, in Mark 5:22, and Luke 8:41. Matthew 9:18 THERE CAME A CERTAIN RULER - Mark
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
JAIRAS-' DAUGHTER AND THE WOMAN WITH HAEMORRHAGE (Mark 5:21 *, Luke 8:40). Mt. records in nine verses what Mk. takes twenty-three to tell. He again forsakes Mk.'s order, postponing Mark 2:23 to...
GIVE PLACE, FOR THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH. The reality of the death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly assumed, that death will be followed by. resurrection, as sleep is by an awaken...
While he was saying these things, look you, a ruler came and knelt before him in worship; "My daughter, he said, "has just died. But come and lay your hand upon her, and she will live:" Jesus rose and...
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
GIVE PLACE. Go out [of the room]. MAID. Greek. _korasion._ The same as "damsel" in Mark 6:22; Mark 6:28: not the same as "damsel" in Mark 5:39 (App-108. IX), which _is paidion_ (App-108. V). SLEEPETH...
_is not dead, but sleepeth_ These words are reported without variation by the three Synoptists; it is open to question whether they ought not to be taken literally. The word for sleepeth (καθεύδει) do...
The Daughter of Jairus, 18, 19 and 23 26; Mark 5:22-24; Mark 5:35-43; Luke 8:41-42; Luke 8:49-56 The Woman cured of an Issue of Blood, 20
THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS, 18, 19 and 23–26 Mark 5:22-24; Mark 5:35-43; Luke 8:41-42; Luke 8:49-56. THE WOMAN CURED OF AN ISSUE OF BLOOD
ΤῸ ΚΟΡΆΣΙΟΝ. Diminutive of affection. This form is rejected by the Atticists in favour of κόριον, κορίδιον, κορίσκη, κορίσκιον. It is frequent in Epictetus, Lucian, and other late authors. See Lob. _P...
VER 23. AND WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE RULER'S HOUSE, AND SAW THE MINSTRELS AND THE PEOPLE MAKING A NOISE, 24. HE SAID UNTO THEM, "GIVE PLACE; FOR THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH." AND THEY LAUGHED H...
_COMPASSION RESTORED A GIRL AND HEALED A WOMAN MATTHEW 9:18-26:_ It was compassion that caused Jesus to raise Jairus' daughter from the dead. (Luke 8:51) Jairus was a father that loved his daughter ve...
ΆΝΑΧΩΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act._ ΆΝΑΧΩΡΈΩ (G402) уходить, ΆΠΈΘΑΝΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать, ΚΑΘΕΎΔΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518) спать. _Praes._ противопоставлен _aor....
Section 20 JESUS RAISES JAIRUS-' DAUGHTER (Parallels: Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:49-56) TEXT: 9:18-26 18. While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a ruler, and worshipped him, saying, M...
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. For the...
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
THE RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER, AND THE HEALING OF THE WOMAN WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD (Mark 5:21; Luke 8:40). The most important point in the raising of Jairus' daughter is the reality of the death. Th...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
(23-26) The other Gospels fill up the gap. While our Lord was speaking the words of promise to the woman, messengers came from the house of Jairus, reporting that the child was dead. They whisper to h...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
ἀναχωρεῖτε, retire! Hired mourners distasteful to Jesus, who gladly avails Himself of this opportunity of dismissing them. οὐ γὰρ ἀπέθανε : no need of you yet, for the maid (κοράσιον, dim. for κόρη, b...
The narrative returns to the case of Jairus' daughter....
_The daughter of Jairus, with interlude_ (Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56). Given by Matthew in immediate connection with the discourse on fasting, but by Mark, and Luke following him, in connection with t...
LORD OF LIFE AND DEATH Matthew 9:18-26 No grief appeals to Christ in vain. He always arises to follow. Let us as His disciples ever follow where He leads. We are permitted to be His fellow-workers a...
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
The girl is not dead. Christ, by saving so, insinuated that she was not dead in such a manner as they imagined; that is, so as to remain dead, but presently to return to life, as if she had been only...
RESURRECTION OF JAIRUS'S DAUGHTER Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:23-43; & Luke 8:41-56. Mark: “And, behold, one of the chief rulers of the synagogue, by name Jairus, comes; and seeing Him, falls at His feet,...
We have here two most interesting miracles of the Lord Jesus; and they are blended into one view, because the one runs into the other, and both serve mutually to illustrate the glory of Jesus. The imp...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPING_ ‘The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.’ Matthew 9:24 We have three great lessons from this history. I. A LESSON AGAINST DESPAIR.—The first is never to believe that we are ut...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE PLACE,.... Depart, be gone; for he put them out of the room, and suffered none to be with him, when he raised her from the dead, but Peter, James, and John, and the father...
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. Ver. 24. _And they laughed him to scorn_] This is daily done by the mad world, quite beside itsel...
Mat. 9:24. When Christ said, She is not dead, but sleepeth, thereby is meant that her soul was not finally separated from her body, so as to enter into the spiritual and eternal world; nor had there t...
_He said unto them, Give place_ Mark, whose narrative is more particular, says, _When he was come in_, namely, into the house, _he said unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? the damsel is not dead...
GIVE PLACE; retire: your services are not wanted. NOT DEAD; that is, not permanently. Her death is but as a sleep from which she will be speedily awakened....
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
18-26 The death of our relations should drive us to Christ, who is our life. And it is high honour to the greatest rulers to attend on the Lord Jesus; and those who would receive mercy from Christ, m...
Mark saith, MARK 5:39,40, _When he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all ou...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII And I conjecture that they suspected that the signs upon earth might possibly not be of God; for they did not hesitate indeed to say, "Jesus casts out demons by...
Matthew 9:24 said G3004 (G5719) them G846 room G402 (G5720) for G1063 girl G2877 is G599 not...
‘And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult, he said, “Give place, for the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.” And they laughed him to scorn.' On...
WHAT JESUS HAS TO OFFER AND THE GROWTH OF PHARISAIC OPPOSITION (9:10-34). We are now informed about the first open opposition among the Pharisees to Jesus. The Pharisees had seemingly previously appro...
THE RAISING OF A RULER'S DAUGHTER AND THE HEALING OF THE WOMAN WITH A DISCHARGE OF BLOOD (9:18-26). No better illustration of the fact that the new had come can be found than here. In the raising of t...
Matthew 9:24. GIVE PLACE. A request for the crowd to retire. FOR THE DAMSEL IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH. A direct reference to the miracle, which He was about to perform. She did not die, as others die...
The four miracles mentioned in this section seem to have occurred in immediate succession. On the way to the house of the ruler, the woman with an issue of blood is cured; the ruler's daughter is rais...
Matthew 9:18 , MATTHEW 9:23 The Raising of Jairus' Daughter. I. The miracles of raising from the dead, whereof this is the first, have always been regarded as the mightiest outcomings of the power of...
Matthew 9:18. _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 li...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
SHE IS ONLY SLEEPING. Jesus does not deny the reality of death. He means to say that death will be followed by the raising from death, just as people wake up from sleep. THEY ALL STARTED MAKING FUN OF...
_The maid is not dead, but sleepeth._ THE HEALING OF JAIRUS’S DAUGHTER On His way to perform one act of love, He turned aside to give His attention to another; He had a heart ready to respond to ever...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 9:24 Jesus brings the GIRL to life, anticipating his later raising of Lazarus and his own resurrection (Matthew 28:1;...
JESUS RESTORES A GIRL TO LIFE AND HEALS A BLEEDING WOMAN MATTHEW 9:18-26; MARK 5:21-43; LUKE 8:40-56; MARK 5:21 And when Jesus was passed ove
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 9:18. A CERTAIN RULER.—The president of a synagogue. His name was Jairus (see Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). Every synagogue had its president, who superintended and directed the serv...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
1 Kings 17:18; Acts 20:10; Acts 9:40; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 53:3;...
Withdraw — There is no need of you now; for the maid is not dead — Her life is not at an end; but sleepeth — This is only a temporary suspension of sense and motion, which should rather be termed slee...