Mark 5:23
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He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.”
Read Mark 5:23 Using Other Translations
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
and implored him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live."
pleading fervently with him. “My little daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she can live.”
What does Mark 5:23 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Mark 5:23
And besought him greatly
Used much importunity with him, and was very urgent in his
requests:
saying, my little daughter lieth at the point of
death,
or "is in the last extremity"; just breathing out her last; for
she was not actually dead when he left her, though she was before
he returned, and was at this time, as he might expect, expiring,
or really gone; (See Gill on Matthew
9:18).
[I pray thee] come and lay thine hands on her, that she may
be
healed, and she shall live;
expressing faith in the power of Christ to restore his daughter,
though in the utmost extremity; yet seemed to think his presence,
and the imposition of his hands were necessary to it.
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