Jesus Raises Daughter of Jairus from Death

Raising of dead is not resurrection] See Luke 7:11-17.

Matthew 9:23. Minstrels and the people making a noise] Oriental customs of public mourning and display at the time of death prevailed among the Jews of Jesus' day. Noise, tumult, weeping, screeching, screaming, flute playing, and the use of hired mourners—all were part of the orthodox mourning rituals.

Matthew 9:24; 24. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth] True, she was dead as men view death, for her spirit had left her body. Yet in the kindly perspective of eternity, the dead are merely as those who are asleep; for a moment the body, without life, is unconscious to its surroundings; but soon—as when the sleeping soul, following a night of repose, gains consciousness with the rising sun—the body will awaken to a new life of resurrected immortality. How comforting to know that the dead are only sleeping and that those who rest in the Lord shall awake to everlasting life.

I. V. Matthew 9:24. Not dead but dying or at the point of death, as Mark and Luke also attest.

Mark 5:41. Talitha cumi] Mark, obviously having learned them from Peter, preserves the exact Aramaic words spoken by Jesus.

Luke 8:55. Her spirit came again] Her spirit—the intelligent, sentient, living part of the human personality—returned from the spirit world and entered the body again, thus causing the maid to live again as a mortal personage.