And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.She is not dead but sleepeth — Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death. read more
§ 51. TWO DEMONIACS OF GADARA HEALED, Luke 8:26-40 . The events 22-42 take place after the day of the seven parables, § 49. read more
§ 52. RAISING OF JAIRUS’S DAUGHTER THE WOMAN WITH A FLUX, Luke 8:41-56 . (See notes on Matthew 9:1; Matthew 9:10-26; Mark 5:22-43.) Jesus, after recrossing the lake, from dispossessing the demoniacs of Gadara, attends the feast given by Matthew in his honour to his brother publicans, and is in full tide of rebuke to the Pharisees who were cavilling at his eating in such company, when a sudden interruption takes place. No less a person than the Ruler of the Synagogue of Capernaum ... read more
43-48. On the way to Jairus’s house occurs the miracle of the Bloody Flux. (Notes on Mark 5:22-23.) read more
50. Believe only In his earlier ministry Jesus allowed his miracle to precede the faith in order to create faith; in his advancing ministry he had a right, from his past works, often to require faith before the miracle; and then the miracle justified and rewarded the faith. read more
52. Not dead, but sleepeth It was hardly to be expected that such a commentator as Olshausen would quote this language in proof that this maiden was only in a state of suspended animation. What is more common in all languages and habits of human thought than the likening of death to sleep? If our Lord was really in this language endeavouring to state the literal fact, we have no doubt he would have had better success, and would have said outright, she is not dead, but is in a swoon,... read more
53. They laughed him to scorn It was the crowd of “minstrels and people making a great noise,” and whom Jesus put forth from the room, who laughed; suddenly changing their hired hypocritical mourning to scorn. Their scorn is expressed at the very idea that she is not dead; thus with Olshausen, putting the literal construction on Jesus’s term sleepeth. That the maiden was actually dead we thus have the testimony of the father, of the messengers to the father from home, and now in... read more
54. Put them all out Their noise, their mercenary character, and their disrespect, entitled them to this dismissal; and the implicitness with which our Lord was obeyed, shows that his authority here was confessed and absolute. As the fact of the maiden’s death was, as we have shown above, plentifully attested, so the fact of her after living must have become known to all the living acquaintances. But Jesus allowed but five witnesses to behold the actual process, his three elect disciples... read more
55. Commanded to give her meat From miracle he hands her over to the usual means of life, honouring thereby the laws and course of nature, even after he had performed an act above the level of ordinary nature. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 8:40
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.Mark 5:21. read more