Matthew 9:25 - Exposition

But when the people ( crowd , Revised Version; cf. Matthew 9:23 ) were put forth, he went in. Till they were cast out he would not enter. They with their hired sorrow would disturb the reverential feelings essential to the performance of such a miracle. And took her by the hand, and the maid ( Matthew 9:24 , note) arose. Matthew omits all mention of Christ's words to her, but his ἠγέρθη is, perhaps, a reminiscence of the command ἔγειρε .

Verse 26.—Matthew only. And the fame hereof ( ἡφήμη αὕτη ) went abroad into all that land . Of no one miracle is this elsewhere affirmed. That land . Doubtless Northern Palestine. It marks the Jerusalem standpoint of the writer (Nosgen); vide Introduction, p. 19.