MARK—NOTE ON Mark 5:41 Touching a dead person renders one ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 19:11), but once again Jesus overcomes uncleanness (see note on Mark 5:25–27), and the girl comes back to life (see 2 Kings 4:17; Acts 9:39). Talitha cumi. At times, Mark reports Jesus’ statements in Aramaic, which shows that Mark’s writing was based on eyewitness accounts.

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