Luk 8:55 | KingComments | STEP | The Lord comes to the house. He only allows the three disciples who were with Him on the mountain to enter with the girl’s father and mother. They may witness how He brings her to life. For the three disciples it will again be a special encouragement with a view to their later service for the Lord. The father and mother may also be there, because He wants to give the child back to their care immediately. They have shown their concern by calling on His help. There are also people present who only see death, but they are standing outside the door. He tells them that they can stop weeping because the girl has not died, but is asleep. To Him, death is a sleep from which He can awaken someone. Where He is, death must give way. Nor has anyone ever died in the Lord’s direct surroundings. The people who are weeping and lamenting for the girl when hearing His words change immediately their attitude and start laughing at Him. So little do these people understand the power of God. They have no eye for the power of life in Him. The Lord does not answer them, but takes the hand of the child. Then He calls the words: “Child, arise!” He calls because she has to wake up. He calls “saying”, for his words will wake her up. The girl hears the voice of the Son of God and her spirit returns to her and she becomes alive ( ). Just as the blood flow stopped “immediately” ( ), so here too the result is “immediately”. There is no process of waking up. She gets up immediately. The care of the Lord goes beyond giving her life. He gives orders to give her to eat. She has suffered a lot and needs to regain her strength. This is also important with anyone who receives new life that he gets to eat. The new life must be fed with sound spiritual food. That is God’s Word in the first place. The parents who have so lived in the atmosphere of the law and had raised their child with the law, are deeply impressed by the grace of the Lord. All their good intentions were aimed at making their child live, but they had to state that the only result was death. Now they have appealed to Someone Who proves grace and they have gotten the life of their daughter. Grace is always a matter that causes amazement to those who live in a lawful atmosphere. In connection with His service, the Lord wants this wonder to remain hidden, for He must be accepted on the basis of the testimony He gives to the conscience and the heart. The resurrection of the daughter of Jairus is a transient act, although full of life power. It is an incidental event. The time that will be characterized by a general blessing, has not yet come. Therefore the Lord commands them not to tell anyone what has happened. If He Himself is not accepted, if one refuses to accept His word, it is in vain to make His power generally public.

‏ Luke 8:55

The Daughter of Jairus Resurrected

The Lord comes to the house. He only allows the three disciples who were with Him on the mountain to enter with the girl’s father and mother. They may witness how He brings her to life. For the three disciples it will again be a special encouragement with a view to their later service for the Lord. The father and mother may also be there, because He wants to give the child back to their care immediately. They have shown their concern by calling on His help.

There are also people present who only see death, but they are standing outside the door. He tells them that they can stop weeping because the girl has not died, but is asleep. To Him, death is a sleep from which He can awaken someone. Where He is, death must give way. Nor has anyone ever died in the Lord’s direct surroundings. The people who are weeping and lamenting for the girl when hearing His words change immediately their attitude and start laughing at Him. So little do these people understand the power of God. They have no eye for the power of life in Him.

The Lord does not answer them, but takes the hand of the child. Then He calls the words: “Child, arise!” He calls because she has to wake up. He calls “saying”, for his words will wake her up. The girl hears the voice of the Son of God and her spirit returns to her and she becomes alive (Jn 5:25). Just as the blood flow stopped “immediately” (Lk 8:44-47), so here too the result is “immediately”. There is no process of waking up. She gets up immediately.

The care of the Lord goes beyond giving her life. He gives orders to give her to eat. She has suffered a lot and needs to regain her strength. This is also important with anyone who receives new life that he gets to eat. The new life must be fed with sound spiritual food. That is God’s Word in the first place.

The parents who have so lived in the atmosphere of the law and had raised their child with the law, are deeply impressed by the grace of the Lord. All their good intentions were aimed at making their child live, but they had to state that the only result was death. Now they have appealed to Someone Who proves grace and they have gotten the life of their daughter.

Grace is always a matter that causes amazement to those who live in a lawful atmosphere. In connection with His service, the Lord wants this wonder to remain hidden, for He must be accepted on the basis of the testimony He gives to the conscience and the heart. The resurrection of the daughter of Jairus is a transient act, although full of life power. It is an incidental event. The time that will be characterized by a general blessing, has not yet come. Therefore the Lord commands them not to tell anyone what has happened. If He Himself is not accepted, if one refuses to accept His word, it is in vain to make His power generally public.