Mark 5:39

39 On entering, he said to them, "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead, she's just asleep!"

Mark 5:39 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:39

And when he was come in
Into the house, within doors, into one of the apartments, and where the company of mourners, and the pipers, and mourning women were, singing and saying their doleful ditties:

he saith unto them, why make ye this ado and weep?
why all this tumult and noise? this grief and mourning, whether real or artificial?

the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth:
not but that she was truly dead, but not so as to remain under the power of death: she was like a person in a sleep, who would in a little time be awaked out of it: and which was as easily performed by Christ, as if she had been only in a natural sleep; (See Gill on Matthew 9:24).

Mark 5:39 In-Context

37 He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya`akov and Yochanan, Ya`akov's brother.

38 When they came to the synagogue official's house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.

39 On entering, he said to them, "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead, she's just asleep!"

40 And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child's father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.

41 Taking her by the hand, he said to her, "Talita, kumi!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!").