Mark 1:44-45

shew.

Le 14:2-32; Mt 23:2,3; Lu 5:14; 17:14

for a testimony.

Ro 15:4; 1Co 10:11

and began.

Ps 77:11; Mt 9:31; Lu 5:15; Tit 1:10

could.

2:1,2,13

Mark 3:12

1:25,34; Mt 12:16; Ac 16:18

Mark 5:43

he charged.

1:43; 3:12; 7:36; Mt 8:4; 9:30; 12:16-18; 17:9; Lu 5:14; 8:56; Joh 5:41

and commanded.This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: {Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.} "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.

Given.

Lu 24:30,42,43; Ac 10:41

Mark 8:26

Neither.

5:43; 7:36; Mt 8:4; 9:30; 12:16
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