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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 5:23 - 5:23
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And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter - Luke (Luk 8:42) says, “He had one only daughter, about twelve years of age.” According to a well-known rabbin, quoted by Lightfoot, a daughter, till she had completed her twelfth year, was called “little,” or “a little maid”; after that, “a young woman.”
lieth at the point of death - Matthew (Mat 9:18) gives it thus: “My daughter is even now dead” - “has just expired.” The news of her death reached the father after the cure of the woman with the issue of blood: but Matthew’s brief account gives only the result, as in the case of the centurion’s servant (Mat 8:5, etc.).
come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live - or, “that she may be healed and live,” according to a fully preferable reading. In one of the class to which this man belonged, so steeped in prejudice, such faith would imply more than in others.