is not any other apparent cause why this appellation, which describes the fact as they found it, should be repeated.1
18. Msr avrou, with Him} The cross had allured the man by its sweetness from his own relatives. The powerful influence of Jesus had possession of him. \_And so now on that account he had it in his power to be of the greater use to his relatives.
-v. g.]
19. Toug aoi>$, thine own people) implying the obligation by which we are bound towards relatives. — ai/a/^E/Aoi/, announced) There is a time for speaking ; see ver. 30 and following verses ; and also a time for being silent, ver. 43. — 6 Kvpio$} the Lord) Jesus ; comp. ver. 20 [' Jesus.']
20. Kqpveeeiv, to publish) So they [the people of that country] were not without a testimony among them to the glory of God ; although Jesus, by their own request [ver. 17], went away quickly. — h ry) not merely in his own home, which had been all that Jesus had desired him to do ; ver. 19.
22.2 'ideipog, Jairus) At the time that Mark wrote this, Jairus and his daughter might still have been found in Palestine. It is a strong proof of the truth of the Gospel, that the very proper names are given in the Evangelist's narrative.3 — iduv, when he saw) having beheld the majesty of Christ.
23. 'Effftdrus s^s/, is at the point of death) It was great faith which impelled Jairus to leave her when just breathing her last. — i'va, that) This being put in recitative style, shows what was the mental feeling [intention] which led Jairus to mention the sickness of his daughter. [Eng. Ver. loses the beauty of the abrupt iva, by inserting, I pray thee.~\
29. 'E%r,pdvdri q ^njn-, the fountain was dried up) It not merely decreased. There was the highest degree of instantaneous soundness and health.
1 The larger Ed. is not so much in favour of this repetition as Ed. 2, the Gnomon, and Vers. Germ. ABLA read rov tax,, r. hf/tuva (BLA, ~htytuvot). But Dbc Vulg. Memph. Versions omit the words. — ED.
2 TUV Bc.pxiavvocya'/uv, the rulers of the Synagogue) Who were overseers of the doctors and teachers. — V. g.
3 And, in the case of Jairus and others, in the vicinity of the very localities where the name was a prevalent one. Comp. Num. xxxii. 41 ; Dent. iii. 14 ; Judg. x. 3, 5 ; 1 Chron. ii. 22.— ED.