Acts 9:37

ἐγέν. δὲ : on the frequency of the formula in Luke see above p. 124, and Plummer, St. Luke, p. 45, on the use of ἐγένετο. ἀσθενήσασαν : aorist, marking the time when she fell sick (Weiss). λούσαντες : after the manner of the Jews as well as of the Greeks, cf. instances in Wetstein and Hamburger, Real-Encyclopädie des Judentums, i., 2, 162, “Beerdigung” Outside Jerusalem three days might elapse between the death and burial, but in Jerusalem no corpse lay over night, see Hamburger, u. s., p. 161; in the case of Ananias and Sapphira we may note the accuracy of this distinction. ἔθηκαν : burial did not take place until the danger of an apparent death was considered past; in uncertain cases a delay as above might be allowed, or for other special reasons, and children were forbidden to hasten the burial of their parents, Hamburger, u. s., p. 161; and further for burial and mourning customs, Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, p. 168, and History of the Jewish Nation, p. 311. ἐν ὑπερῴῳ : the body was usually laid in an upper chamber when burial was delayed; see Hackett's note and also on Acts 9:39, and Alford on the article.