“And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.”
And the report of this went through all that district. The resurrection of the girl cannot be contained or hushed — the report spreads throughout the district. Matthew has been building the fame of Jesus through the healing chapters (4:24; 9:31; 9:33) toward the point where the whole region knows what is happening. The news that spreads is not merely the news of a healing but the news of a resurrection — the raising of the dead, which only God had previously done in the Hebrew scriptures (1 Kings 17:17–24; 2 Kings 4:32–37), performed by a Galilean teacher.
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