Teks -- Mark 5:23 (NET)

5:23 He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 5:23 - My little daughter

My little daughter ( to thugatrion mou ).

Diminutive of thugatēr (Mat 9:18). "This little endearing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark"(Vincent). "Is at the point of death"(eschatōs echei ). Has it in the last stages. Mat 9:18 has: "has just died"(arti eteleusen ), Luke "she lay a dying"(apethnēsken , imperfect, she was dying). It was a tragic moment for Jairus.

Robertson: Mar 5:23 - I pray thee

I pray thee

, not in the Greek. This ellipsis before hina not uncommon, a sort of imperative use of hina and the subjunctive in the Koiné (Robertson, Grammar , p. 943).

Vincent: Mar 5:23 - My little daughter

My little daughter ( τὸ θυγάτριον )

This little endearing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark.

Vincent: Mar 5:23 - Lieth at the point of death

Lieth at the point of death ( ἐσχάτως ἔχει )

One of the uncouth phrases peculiar to Mark's style, and which are cited by some as evidence of the early composition of his gospel.

Vincent: Mar 5:23 - I pray thee come

I pray thee come ( ἵνα ἐλθὼν )

The words I pray thee are not in the Greek. Literally the ruler's words run thus: My little daughter lieth at the point of death - that thou come, etc. In his anguish he speaks brokenly and incoherently.

Vincent: Mar 5:23 - He went

He went ( ἐπῆλθεν )

Lit., went away. The aorist tense, denoting action once for all, is in contrast with the imperfects, ἠκολούθει , kept following, and συνέθλιβον , kept thronging. The multitude kept following and thronging as he went along. The preposition σύν , together, in the latter verb, indicates the united pressure of a crowd. Compare Tynd., Mar 5:31. Thrusting thee on every side.

JFB: Mar 5:23 - And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter

Luke (Luk 8:42) says, "He had one only daughter, about twelve years of age." According to a well-known rabbin, quoted by LIGHTFOOT, a daughter. till she had completed her twelfth year, was called "little," or "a little maid"; after that, "a young woman."

JFB: Mar 5:23 - lieth at the point of death

Matthew (Mat 9:18) gives it thus: "My daughter is even now dead"--"has just expired." The news of her death reached the father after the cure of the woman with the issue of blood: but Matthew's brief account gives only the result, as in the case of the centurion's servant (Mat 8:5, &c.).

JFB: Mar 5:23 - come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live

Or, "that she may be healed and live," according to a fully preferable reading. In one of the class to which this man belonged, so steeped in prejudice, such faith would imply more than in others.

The Woman with an Issue of Blood Healed (Mar 5:24-34).

Clarke: Mar 5:23 - My little daughter

My little daughter - Το θυγατριον μου, that little daughter of mine. The words express much tenderness and concern. Luke observes, Luk 8:42, that she was his only daughter, and was about twelve years of age

Clarke: Mar 5:23 - At the point of death

At the point of death - Εσχατως εχει, in the last extremity, the last gasp

See on Mat 9:18 (note).

TSK: Mar 5:23 - besought // lay thy hands

besought : Mar 7:25-27, Mar 9:21, Mar 9:22; 2Sa 12:15, 2Sa 12:16; Psa 50:15, Psa 107:19; Luk 4:38, Luk 7:2, Luk 7:3, Luk 7:12; Joh 4:46, Joh 4:47, Joh 11:3

lay thy hands : Mar 6:5, Mar 6:6, Mar 6:13, Mar 16:18; 2Ki 5:11; Mat 8:3; Luk 4:40, Luk 13:13; Act 28:8; Jam 5:14, Jam 5:15

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 5:21-24

Ver. 21-24. This whole history also is recorded both by Matthew and Luke, and we have already fully opened the several passages of it mentioned by all the evangelists, to which we refer the reader. ( See Poole on "Mat 9:18" , &c.), Christ was now come over again into Galilee, where though the temple was not, yet there were synagogues, where the people did ordinarily assemble to worship God. Nor were they without order in these synagogues; they had one whom they called the ruler of the synagogue, who directed and ordered the affairs of that particular synagogue. It is more probable that Jairus (here mentioned) was in that sense so called, than because he was one of the court of twenty-three which the Jews are said to have had in every city.

Lightfoot: Mar 5:23 - My little daughter

And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee; come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.   

[My little daughter.] "A daughter from her birthday, until she is twelve years old complete, is called 'little,' or 'a little maid.' But when she is full twelve years old and one day over, she is called 'a young woman.'"

Haydock: Mar 5:23

St. Matthew says: my daughter is even now dead. The sense in both is exactly the same. St. Matthew attended rather to the thoughts of Jarius, than to his words; for, as he left her dying, he could not reasonably hope to find her still in the same state; and, as he expected she was already dead, when he spoke this to Jesus, St. Matthew relates what the man thought at that instant, not what he said. (St. Augustine)

Gill: Mar 5:23 - And besought him greatly // saying, my little daughter lieth at the point of death // I pray thee come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall live

And besought him greatly,.... Used much importunity with him, and was very urgent in his requests:

saying, my little daughter lieth at the point of death, or "is in the last extremity"; just breathing out her last; for she was not actually dead when he left her, though she was before he returned, and was at this time, as he might expect, expiring, or really gone; See Gill on Mat 9:18.

I pray thee come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be healed, and she shall live; expressing faith in the power of Christ to restore his daughter, though in the utmost extremity; yet seemed to think his presence, and the imposition of his hands were necessary to it.