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MARK 5:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 5:34Mark 5:36
“While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?”
While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. Your daughter is dead, they said. Why bother the teacher anymore? — the interruption of the bleeding woman's story has allowed time for the worst news to arrive. The daughter is dead — what Jairus feared most when he ran to Jesus has happened while the delay occurred. Why bother the teacher anymore? is the pragmatic conclusion of people who have not yet understood who Jesus is: death terminates the need for a healer. The question assumes that Jesus is a healer of the sick, not a raiser of the dead.

Church Fathers on Mark 5:35

Those who were about the ruler of the synagogue, thought that Christ was one of the prophets, and for this reason they thought that they should beg of Him to come and pray over the damsel. But because she had already expired, they thought that He ought not to be asked to do so.

Theophylact · 11th century

It is not said that he assented to his friends who brought the tidings and wished to prevent the Master from coming, so that our Lord’s saying, 'Fear not, only believe,' is not a rebuke for his want of faith, but was intended to strengthen the belief which he had already. But if the Evangelist had related, that the ruler of the synagogue joined the friends who came from his house, in saying that Jesus should not be troubled, the words which Matthew relates him to have said,…

Augustine · 4th century

It was told the ruler of the synagogue, Thy daughter is dead. But Jesus said to him, She is not dead, but sleepeth. Bother are true, for the meaning is, She is dead to you, but to Me she is asleep.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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