Mark 5:39 Meaning and Explanation
“And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.”
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What Does Mark 5:39 Mean?
Jesus enters and confronts the noise: "Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." He will speak the same way over Lazarus -- "our friend Lazarus sleepeth" -- shortly before raising him (John 11:11).
The girl has truly died; the mourners are mistaken not about the fact but about its finality. Under his hand, her death will prove no harder to end than sleep -- he will simply wake her. Christ renames death from the height of his power over it, and the renaming carries comfort he means his people to keep: those he intends to raise, he is unafraid to call sleeping.
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What does Mark 5:39 mean?
Jesus asks why they weep and declares that the child is not dead but sleeping.