Mark 5:41 - Exposition

The house was now set free from the perfunctory and noisy crowd; and he goes up to the dead child, and takes her by the hand and says, Talitha cumi ; literally Little maid , arise. The evangelist gives the words in the very language used by our Lord—the ipsissima verba , remembered no doubt and recorded by St. Peter; just as he gives "Ephpbatba" in another miracle.