Mark 5:39

39 et ingressus ait eis quid turbamini et ploratis puella non est mortua sed dormit

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 et non admisit quemquam sequi se nisi Petrum et Iacobum et Iohannem fratrem Iacobi

38 et veniunt in domum archisynagogi et videt tumultum et flentes et heiulantes multum

39 et ingressus ait eis quid turbamini et ploratis puella non est mortua sed dormit

40 et inridebant eum ipse vero eiectis omnibus adsumit patrem et matrem puellae et qui secum erant et ingreditur ubi erat puella iacens

41 et tenens manum puellae ait illi talitha cumi quod est interpretatum puella tibi dico surge