John Gill's Exposition on Mark 5:39

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when he was come in, etc..] 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 “<400924>Matthew 9:24”).

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