Luke 8:53

Luk 8:53. Εἰδότες knowing) Therefore all of these persons must have recognised the reality of the miracle.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Luk 8:53 . εἰδότες ὅτι ἀπέθανεν : Lk. is careful to add this remark to exclude the idea that it was not a case of real death; his aim here, as always, to magnify the power as well as the benevolence of Jesus.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

53. laughed him to scorn] Literally, “were utterly deriding Him” ‘To laugh to scorn’ is used by Shakespeare, e.g.

“Our castle’s strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn.”

Macbeth, v. 5.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

And he put them all out,.... Of the room, where the maiden lay, all the mourners and pipers; all excepting the parents of the child, and his three disciples, This clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions; nor was it in two of Beza's ancient copies, and in two of Stephens's; but in the rest, and in the other versions:

and took hereby the hand, and called, saying; in the Syriac language, "Talitha cumi", as in Mar 5:41

Maid, arise; See Gill on Mar 5:41.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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 the most intense form of these mercenary mourners. The scorn they felt at Jesus was excited, doubtless, by the indications furnished in his word sleepeth that he was about to deprive them of a profitable job in their trade of professional howling.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

They laughed him to scorn. These were, no doubt, the hired mourners. Familiar as they were with death, they ridiculed the idea of one whom they knew had passed away, awaking again as from a sleep. These public mourners were customary figures in all Jewish homes, even in the poorest where a death had occurred. They are still usual throughout the Levant. The expression, "laughed him to scorn," is found in Shakespeare"Our castle"s strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. ("Macbeth," act 5. sc. 5.)

The Aramaic words, Talitha, kumi! "Maid, arise!" were just homely words, spoken in the language which the little.girl was in the habit of hearing and using. The Master"s tender care for the child was shown not merely in the choice of the language and the words, but in his loving thought after her resurrection, for we read how

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

53. κατεγέλων αὐτοῦ. Literally, ‘were utterly deriding Him.’ ‘To laugh to scorn’ is used by Shakespeare, e.g.

“Our castle’s strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn.”

Macbeth, Luk 5:5.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

53.] The maiden was actually dead, as plainly appears from the εἰδότες ὅτι ἀπέθ. The words οὐκ ἀπ. ἀλ. κ. are no ground for surmising the contrary: see note on Matt. ver. 24.

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.