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A Personal, Powerful Word
Commentators note that Mark preserves the exact Aramaic words Jesus spoke: "Talitha cumi." This detail, likely remembered by the eyewitness Peter, gives the account a sense of authenticity and intimacy. Paired with the gentle act of taking the girl's hand, it shows a personal Savior whose simple words carry the ultimate power over death.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 5:41
18th Century
Theologian
Talitha cumi. This is the language which our Saviour commonly spoke. It is a mixture of Syriac and Chaldee, called Syro-Chaldaic. The prop…
AT Robertson
On Mark 5:41
Talitha cumi . These precious Aramaic words, spoken by Jesus to the child, Peter heard and remembered so that Mark gives them to u…
Charles Ellicott
On Mark 5:41
19th Century
Bishop
Talitha cumi.—Here, as in the Ephphatha of Mark 7:34, the Evangelist gives the very syllables which had fallen from the l…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Mark 5:40–42
19th Century
Preacher
He taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the dam…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 5:41
Jesus stood by the side of the child, took her hand, and spoke the Aramaic words “Talitha koum” (translated by Mark for his Gentile readers). Arama…
John Calvin
On Mark 5:41
16th Century
Theologian
And he took hold of her hand, and said to her (Luke 8:54), and he took hold of her hand, and cried, though naturally …
John Gill
On Mark 5:41
17th Century
Pastor
And he took the damsel by the hand
(See Gill on Matthew 9:25).
And said to her
Matthew Henry
On Mark 5:35–43
17th Century
Minister
We may suppose Jairus hesitating whether he should ask Christ to go on or not, when told that his daughter was dead. But do we not have as much occ…