“And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.”
About that time she became sick and died. Her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room.—the death is sudden; the preparation (washing, placement in an upper chamber) follows Jewish burial custom. The setting 'upstairs' (hyperōion, literally 'in an upper story') echoes the resurrection appearances and post-Pentecost prayer room (Acts 1:13), suggesting liminal sacred space where divine action occurs.
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