Is even now dead (αρτ ετελευτησεν). Aorist tense with αρτ and so better, "just now died," "just dead" (Moffatt). Mark has it "at t…

There came a certain ruler. Mark and Luke say that his name was Jairus, and that he was a ruler of the synagogue; that is, one of the elde…

While he was speaking these things — At first, the sequence seems so clear that it hardly admits any doubt. Yet it is just as clea…

For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, "Why do we and the Pharis…

St. John Chrysostom: After His instructions, He adds a miracle that would powerfully confound the Pharisees. The man who came …

Matthew tightly links this narrative to the dinner in his house. A synagogue ruler, hence a Jew and a man of considerable influence in the lives of…

While he was speaking these things to them. Those who imagine that the narrative presented here by Mark and Luke is different from that of…

While he spoke these things to them
To the Scribes and Pharisees, and to John's disciples, concerning, and in vindic…

The death of our relatives should drive us to Christ, who is our life. And it is a high honor for the greatest rulers to serve the Lord Jesus; and …

The Evangelist has related the miracles by which remedies were applied against the dangers of sin; here, he relates those miracles by which remedie…