Matthew 9:24 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:24

“Go away,” He told them. “The girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they laughed at Him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

KJV

He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Vers. 24.) Step back, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they laughed at him. For in God, all things live.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he said unto them, give place,.... Depart, be gone; for he put them out of the room, and suffered none to be with him, when he raised her from the dead, but Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the child, who were witnesses enough of this miracle.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Withdraw - There is no need of you now; for the maid is not dead - Her life is not at an end; but sleepeth - This is only a temporary suspension of sense and motion, which should rather be termed sleep than death.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If he has power to give eternal life, as he certainly has ( John xvii. 2 ), he must have power to forgive sin; for guilt is a bar that must be removed, or we can never get to heaven. What an encouragement is this to poor sinners to repent, that the power of pardoning sin is put into the hands of the Son of man, who is bone of our bone!

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The maid is not dead, but sleepeth - That is, she is not dead so as to continue under the power of death; but shall be raised from it as a, person is from natural sleep. They laughed him to scorn - Κατεγελων αυτον, they ridiculed him; from κατα, intensive, and γελαω, I laugh: - they grinned a ghastly smile, expressive of the contempt they felt for his person and knowledge.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

Let us mark, in this passage, the gracious name by which the Lord Jesus speaks of himself. He calls himself “the bridegroom” What the bridegroom is to the bride, the Lord Jesus is to the souls of all who believe in him. He loves them with a deep and everlasting love. He takes them into union with himself: they are “one with Christ and Christ in them.”

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔλεγεν	elegen	He was saying	G3004 →
ἀναχωρεῖτε,	anachōreite	do go away,	G402 →
οὐ	ou	Not	G3756 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἀπέθανεν	apethanen	is dead	G599 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
κοράσιον	korasion	girl	G2877 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
καθεύδει.	katheudei	sleeps.	G2518 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
κατεγέλων	kategelōn	they were mocking	G2606 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 11:4
When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
leads to
- John 11:40
  Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 9:3
  Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
- 1 Peter 4:14
  If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
- John 5:23
  so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Through
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes…
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:4
  As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- Matthew 26:67
  Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
- Isaiah 53:3
  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Isaiah 48:17
  Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.