Luke 8:54

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!"

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παῖς

paîs

G3816

“child”

Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine

Appears 24× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 2:16

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: perhaps from G3817

TDNT: 15:36,8

1. a child, boy or girl a. infants, children 2. servant, slave a. an attendant, servant, spec. a king's attendant, minister

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is παῖς child G3816 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

παῖς child G3816 occurs in 24 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

αὐτὸς he G846 ×2
τῆς the G3588 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 8:54 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Jeremiah 31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
Matthew 9:25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
Mark 1:31 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them.
Mark 8:23 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
Mark 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
Luke 7:14–15 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
Luke 8:51 When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

John 5:28–29 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
John 11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
Acts 9:40 Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Mark 5:40–41 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
Romans 4:17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

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Where the printed editions differ

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Extra text

ἐκβαλὼν ἔξω πάντας καὶ

“having taken out outside all and”

In TRByz Not in NA28NA27TynSBLWHTreg

ἐκβαλὼν ἔξω πάντας καὶ (ekbalōn exō pantas kai) 'having taken out outside all and' is only in traditional manuscripts (TR+Byz)

Textual data: Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible TAGNT) · CC BY 4.0.

Commentary

Notes on Luke 8:54 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Bengel's Gnomon

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Luk 8:54. Ἡ παῖς, maid) Luke has least of all employed Hebrew idioms.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 54. He put them all out] That is, the pipers and those who made a noise, weeping and lamenting. See Mt 9:23; Mr 5:38. Pompous funeral ceremonies are ridiculous in themselves, and entirely opposed to the spirit and simplicity of the religion of Christ. Every where they meet with his disapprobation.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

54. he put them all out] These words being omitted by א, B, D, L, X, are probably interpolated here, from the other Synoptists. Our Lord could not feel the smallest sympathy for these simulated agonies of people, who (to this day) “weep, howl, beat their breasts, and tear their hair according to contract” (Thomson, Land and Book, I. viii.). And further these solemn deeds required calm and faith, Act_9:40; 2Ki_4:33.

took her by the hand] St Luke preserves this gentle detail, as well as the kind order to give her food. St Mark gives the two Aramaic words which our Lord used, Talitha cumi! On these occasions He always used the fewest possible words (Luk_7:14; Joh_11:43).

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And her spirit came again,.... Her soul, which was departed from her, upon the all-powerful voice of Christ, returned to her body; and "re-entered", as the Ethiopic version adds: this shows that the soul is immortal, and dies not with the body; that it exists in a separate state from it after death, and will hereafter re-enter the body, and be again united to it in the resurrection, of which this instance was a kind of pledge and emblem: where her spirit was during this time of separation, is needless, and would be curious and rash to inquire; it is enough to say with the Scripture, that it had returned, to God, that gave it, Ecc 12:7 and by whom it was sent back to its body again:

and she arose straightway: from off the bed, and as Mark says, "walked"; for she was at an age capable of it, and which actions of arising and walking, clearly proved that she was alive, and in health:

and he commanded to give her meat; which was done, partly to show, not only that she was alive, but that her disorder was removed, and her appetite restored, and that she could eat and drink, as she had done before her illness; and partly, to observe that she was raised not to an immortal life, as none were before Christ, but to an animate life, which was to be supported by eating and drinking, and so a mortal one; See Gill on Mar 5:43.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

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 (51) and the two parents. The disciples are chosen to testify it among the followers of Jesus, and record it for future ages; the parents to testify it to the friends of the maiden, and to confirm it whenever its reality was questioned among serious inquirers.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

he took her by the hand

"Jesus took hold of the girl's hand"

Her spirit returned

"Her spirit returned to her body." The Jews understood that life was the result of the spirit coming into a person. AT: "She started breathing again" or "She came back to life" or "She became alive again" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

to tell no one

This could be stated differently. AT: "not to tell anyone"

translationWords

spirit

command

amazed

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

54. The words ἐκβαλὼν ἔξω πάντα καὶ are omitted by אBDL.

54. [ἐκβαλὼν ἔξω πάντας καί.] These words, being omitted by אB DLX, are probably interpolated here, from the other Synoptists. Our Lord could not feel the smallest sympathy for these simulated agonies of people, who (to this day) “weep, howl, beat their breasts, and tear their hair according to contract” (Thomson, Land and Book, I. viii.). And further these solemn deeds required calm and faith, Act 9:40; 2Ki 4:33.

αὐτὸς δὲ κρατήσας τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῆς. St Luke preserves this gentle detail, as well as the kind order to give her food. St Mark gives the two Aramaic words which our Lord used, “Talitha cumi!” On these occasions He always used the fewest possible words (Luk 7:14; Joh 11:43).

ἡ παῖς. On this nominative, used instead of the vocative with imperative, see note on Luk 10:21; Mat 27:29.

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.

Alford’s Greek Testament

Henry Alford

54.] Mark gives the actual Aramaic words uttered by the Lord, ταλιθὰ κοῦμ.

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

International Critical Commentary

54. κρατήσας τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῆς. All three mention that He laid hold of her, although to touch a dead body was to incur ceremonial uncleanness. In like manner He touched the leper: see on 5:13. This laying hold of her hand and the raised voice (ἐφώνησεν) are consonant with waking one out of sleep, and the two may be regarded as the means of the miracle. Comp. and contrast throughout Act 9:36-42.

Ἡ παῖς, ἔγειρε. “Arise, get up,” not “awake.” Mt. omits the command; Mk. gives the exact words, Talitha cumi. For the nom. with the art. as voc. see on 10:21, 18:11, 13. For ἐφώνησεν comp. ver. 8, 16:24.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament

Marvin R. Vincent

Maid [η παις] . Instead of the unclassical korasion, damsel, of Matthew and Mark. ===Luk9

CHAPTER IX

1 - 6. Compare Mt 10:1, 7, 9 - 11, 14; Mr 6:7 - 13.

Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is paîs (“child”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “child” (paîs) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Matthew 2:16 shares the word «child» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“he” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Bengel's Gnomon and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“he” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Greek lemmas span 11 words in this verse.