Mark 5:43
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| Overview - Mark 5 | |
| 1 | Christ delivering the possessed of the legion of devils, |
| 13 | they enter into the swine. |
| 22 | He is entreated by Jairus to go and heal his daughter. |
| 25 | He heals the woman of the bloody issue, |
| 35 | and raises from death Jairus' daughter. |
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Mark 5:43 (King James Version)
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
- he charged
- 1:43 3:12 7:36 Matthew 8:4 ; 9:30 12:16-18 17:9 Luke 5:14 ; 8:56 John 5:41
- and commanded
- This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: {Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.} "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used
- " To act otherwise would be to tempt God.
- Given
- Luke 24:30 Luke 24:42 Luke 24:43 ; Acts 10:41