Matthew 9:25

When the people were put forth.

Luke (8:51) says that Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the maiden were permitted to remain.

He took her by the hand.

As we learn from the parallel accounts, he said to her, Talitha cumi. This is Aramaic, the language generally spoken by the common people in Palestine at the time of Christ. Talitha, in the ordinary dialect of the people, is. word of endearment to. young maiden, so that the words are equivalent to " Rise, my child. " It is in harmony with the sublime familiarity of Jesus on all the points of this subject, which men had consecrated with all solemn symbols as the one great dread of the race, that he should have used the dear mother-call to this little girl,-- Talitha cumi, --as if she only had slept soundly for. night.... Over every silent grave the ear of faith can hear the words, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me never dies.--C. H. Hall.

The maid arose.

Mark says, "Straightway." The cure was immediate. He says she "walked." The cure was complete.