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he said to them, "Make room, because the young lady isn`t dead, but sleeping." They laughed him to scorn.
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"Not Dead, but Sleeping"
Commentators unanimously agree that Jesus was not denying the girl's physical death. Instead, He used the word "sleep" to teach a profound truth. For Jesus, whose power over death is absolute, raising her was as simple as waking someone. This term also reframes death for believers as a temporary state before the final resurrection, not a permanent end.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The maid is not dead, but sleepeth. It cannot be supposed that our Lord means literally to say that the child was not dead. Every…
19th Century
Anglican
The other Gospels fill in the details. While our Lord was speaking the words of promise to the woman, messengers came from the house of Jairus, rep…
Baptist
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
They did not understand his e…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
The Evangelist has related the miracles by which remedies were applied against the dangers of sin; here, he relates those miracles by which remedie…
