18.
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While he spake these things (about fasting). The
context in Mt. is completely different from that in Mk. Lk. Is it possible that
in his discourse (Mk. 5:21), Jesus had come back to this topic? - right
attitudes to fasting.
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There came a certain (one) ruler. AV is correct here,
and the modern versions: “there came in a ruler”, are wrong. The
error arises from telescoping two Gk. words into one.
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Is even now dead. More exactly: ‘she just
died’. How reconcile with Mk. 5:23, 35?
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(a) With implied ellipsis: (so we thought), (b) An inference
from how she was when he left the house some distance off. (c) Mt’s much
abbreviated version anticipates Mk. 5:35.
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19.
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Jesus arose, that is, from sitting as a
teacher.
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21.
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She said within herself Gk: she kept on saying.
This was now her one assurance, her only hope, her sheet anchor.
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His garment. Contrast hers: Jude 23.
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22.
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Daughter. This is the only known time Jesus addressed a
woman in this way. She must have been appreciably
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younger than he, surely only in her twenties.
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25.
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Put forth. Gk. passive voice probably implies
unwillingness to go. This is why Jesus took the three disciples with him.
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27.
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Blind. One 19th century traveller wrote that in
Arabia he found at least one in five with serious eye disease. Note
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the Biblical symbolism:
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a. Retribution for sin in Israel: Dt. 28:29; ls. 59:10;
Zeph. 1:17.
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b. Israel made like unto Gentiles: ls. 42:18-20; 43:8; Mt.
15:4.
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c. The healing of the Gentiles: ls. 29:18; Eph.
5:8.
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30.
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Charged them. A very strong word, full of indignation;
Mk. 1:43; 14:5.
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31.
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In all that country (and v. 26). The phrase probably
implies that when Matthew wrote, he was away from Galilee.
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22.
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One of the rulers. Some synagogues had more than one;
e.g. Acts 13:15.
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Seeing him, as though not aware at first that Jesus was
there. How reconcile with the implication (v. 35) that he had set out to seek
the help of Jesus?
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23.
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Healed. Literally: saved. The word is used in this
narrative for both physical and spiritual healing (v. 34).
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26.
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No better; s.w. Gal. 5:2.
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28.
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Touch but his clothes. Cp. Acts. 19:11, 12; 5:15, 16.
Capable of being interpreted as superstition or insight.
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29.
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Plague. Literally: scourge; s.w. Acts 22:24;
Heb.11:36.
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31.
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Who touched me? Cp, questions intended to lead to
repentance, in Gen. 3:9; 4:9; 2 Kgs. 5:25.
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34.
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Go in peace. See also: Lk. 7:50; 17:19;
18:42.
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39.
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Sleepeth. The list is a long one, and impressive: Jn.
11:11; Mt. 27:52; Acts 7:60; 13:36; 1 Cor. 7:39; 15:6, 18, 20, 51; 1 Th.
4:13-15; 2 Pet. 3:4.
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