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Simplified Cowboy Version

Matthew 9:19

Jesus got up immediately and told his hands to come on.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Capernaum;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Synagogue;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children;   Dominion (2);   Following;   Jairus;   Lazarus;   Ruler (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jairus (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.
King James Version (1611)
And Iesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
King James Version
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
English Standard Version
And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
New American Standard Bible
Jesus got up from the table and began to accompany him, along with His disciples.
New Century Version
So Jesus and his followers stood up and went with the leader.
Amplified Bible
Jesus got up and began to accompany the ruler, with His disciples.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iesus arose and followed him with his disciples.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jesus got up and began to follow him, and so did His disciples.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus got up and began to follow him, and so did His disciples.
Berean Standard Bible
So Jesus got up and went with him, along with His disciples.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus and his disciples got up and went with the man.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua, with his talmidim, got up and followed him.
Darby Translation
And Jesus rose up and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Jesus and his followers went with the man.
George Lamsa Translation
And Jesus and his disciples rose up and went with him.
Good News Translation
So Jesus got up and followed him, and his disciples went along with him.
Lexham English Bible
And Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.
Literal Translation
And rising up, Jesus and His disciples followed him.
American Standard Version
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Bible in Basic English
And Jesus got up and went after him, and so did his disciples.
Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua got up and followed him, as did his talmidim.
International Standard Version
So Jesus got up and followed him, along with his disciples.
Etheridge Translation
And Jeshu arose, with his disciples, and went after him.
Murdock Translation
And Jesus rose up, and his disciples; and they followed him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus arose, and folowed hym, and [so dyd] his disciples.
English Revised Version
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
World English Bible
Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Weymouth's New Testament
And Jesus rose and followed him, as did also His disciples.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus roos, and `hise disciplis, and sueden hym.
Update Bible Version
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.
New English Translation
Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.
New King James Version
So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples.
New Living Translation
So Jesus and his disciples got up and went with him.
New Life Bible
Jesus got up and followed him. His followers went also.
New Revised Standard
And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Jesus, arising, was following him, also his disciples.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus rising up followed him, with his disciples.
Revised Standard Version
And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus having risen, did follow him, also his disciples,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples.
Mace New Testament (1729)
so Jesus arose, together with his disciples, and follow'd him.

Contextual Overview

18When Jesus was talking, a man who was in charge of running a church came and got down on his knees in front of him. The man said, "My daughter has just died. But I believe if you come to my house, you can raise her from the dead." 19Jesus got up immediately and told his hands to come on. 20Just then, a lady who had been bleeding for twelve years snuck up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his shirt. 21She told herself, "I know I will be healed if I can touch him. Even if it's the edge of his shirt." 22Jesus spun around and told her, "Cheer up, daughter," he said, "you've just been healed by your faith." From that very moment, the woman was healed. 23When Jesus entered the house of the guy whose daughter had died, he saw people cryin' and playin' sad songs on instruments. 24Jesus told 'em, "This girl ain't dead, she's just asleep." But they all just laughed and mocked him. 25Jesus told 'em all to get out and when they were all outside, he went into the little girl's bedroom. Jesus went up to her and took her by the hand and she stood up. 26Word spread around the countryside like wildfire about what had happened.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 8:7, John 4:34, Acts 10:38, Galatians 6:9, Galatians 6:10

Reciprocal: Matthew 9:23 - into Mark 5:22 - there

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus arose and followed him,.... Immediately, without delay, or any more ado: he did not upbraid him with the treatment he and his followers met with, from men of his profession; who cast out of their synagogues such, who confessed him to be the Messiah: nor does he take notice of any weakness in his faith; as that he thought it necessary he should go with him to his house, when he could as well have restored his daughter to life, absent, as present; and that he should prescribe a form of doing it, by laying his hands upon her. These things he overlooked, and at once got up from Matthew's table, and went along with him,

and so did his disciples, to be witnesses of the miracle; and according to the other evangelists, a large multitude of people besides; even a throng of them, led by curiosity to see this wondrous performance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account contained in these verses is also recorded, with some additional circumstances, in Mark 5:22-43, and Luke 8:41-56.

Matthew 9:18

There came a certain ruler - Mark and Luke say that his name was Jairus, and that he was a “ruler of the synagogue;” that is, one of the elders to whom was committed the care of the synagogue.

See the notes at Matthew 4:23.

And worshipped him - That is, fell down before him, or expressed his respect for him by a token of profound regard. See the notes at Matthew 2:2.

My daughter is even now dead - Luke says that this was his only daughter, and that she was twelve years of age. Mark and Luke say that she was “at the point of death,” and that information of her actual death was brought to him by one who was sent by the ruler of the synagogue, while Jesus was going. Matthew combined the two facts, and stated the representation which was made to Jesus, without stopping particularly to exhibit the manner in which it was done. In a summary way he says that the ruler communicated the information. Luke and Mark, dwelling more particularly on the circumstances, state at length the way in which it was done; that is, by himself stating, in a hurry, that she was “about to die,” or “was dying,” and then in a few moments sending word that “she was dead.” The Greek word, rendered “is even now dead,” does not of necessity mean, as our translation would express, that she had actually expired, but only that she was “dying” or about to die. Compare Genesis 48:21. It is likely that a father, in these circumstances, would use a word as nearly expressing actual death as would be consistent with the fact that she was alive. The passage may be expressed thus: “My daughter was so sick that she must be by this time dead.”

Come and lay thy hand upon her - It was customary for the Jewish prophets, in conferring favors, to lay their hand on the person benefited. Jesus had probably done so also, and the ruler had probably witnessed the fact.

Matthew 9:20

And, behold, a woman ... - This disease was by the Jews reckoned unclean Leviticus 15:25, and the woman was therefore unwilling to make personal application to Jesus, or even to touch his person. The disease was regarded as incurable. She had expended all her property, and grew worse, Mark 5:26.

Touched the hem of his garment - This garment was probably the square garment which was thrown over the shoulders. See notes at Matthew 5:40. This was surrounded by a border or “fringe;” and this “fringe,” or the loose threads hanging down, is what is meant by the “hem.” The Jews were commanded to wear this, in order to distinguish them from other nations. See Numbers 15:38-39; Deuteronomy 22:12.

Mark says that “the woman, fearing and trembling,” came and told him all the truth. Perhaps she feared that, from the impure nature of her disease, he would be offended that she touched him.

Matthew 9:22

But Jesus tutored him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort - Jesus silenced her fears, commended her faith, and sent her away in peace.

He used an endearing appellation, calling her “daughter,” a word of tenderness and affection, and dismissed her who had been twelve long and tedious years labouring under a weakening and offensive disease, now in an instant made whole. Her faith, her strong confidence in Jesus, had been the means of her restoration. It was the “power” of Jesus that cured her; but that power would not have been exerted but in connection with faith. So in the salvation of a sinner. No one is saved who does not believe; but faith is the instrument, and not the power, that saves.

Matthew 9:23

And widen Jesus came into the ruler’s house ... - Jesus permitted only three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and the father and mother of the damsel, to go in with him where the corpse lay, Mark 5:37-40

It was important that there should be “witnesses” of the miracle, and he chose a sufficient number. “Five” witnesses were enough to establish the fact. The witnesses were impartial. The fact that she was dead was established beyond a doubt. Of this the mourners, the parents, the messengers, the people, were satisfied. If she was presented to the people “alive,” the proof of the miracle was complete. The presence of more than the “five” witnesses would have made the scene tumultuous, and have been less satisfactory evidence of the fact of the restoration of the child. Five sober witnesses are always better than the confused voices of a rabble. These were the same disciples that were with him on the Mount of Transfiguration and in the Garden of Gethsemane, Mark 9:2; Mark 14:33; 2 Peter 1:17-18.

And saw the minstrels and the people making a noise - Minstrels” are persons who play on instruments of music. The people of the East used to bewail the dead by cutting the flesh, tearing the hair, and crying bitterly. See Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 16:6-7; Ezekiel 24:17. The expressions of grief at the death of a friend, in Eastern countries, are extreme. As soon as a person dies, all the females in the family set up a loud and doleful cry. They continue it as long as they can without taking breath, and the shriek of wailing dies away in a low sob. Nor do the relatives satisfy themselves with these expressions of violent grief. They hire persons of both sexes, whose employment it is to mourn for the dead in the like frantic manner. See Amos 5:16; Jeremiah 9:20. They sing the virtues of the deceased, recount his acts, dwell on his beauty, strength, or learning; on the comforts of his family and home, and in doleful strains ask him why he left his family and friends.

To all this they add soft and melancholy music. They employ “minstrels” to aid their grief, and to increase the expressions of their sorrow. This violent grief continues, commonly, eight days. In the case of a king, or other very distinguished personage, it is prolonged through an entire month. This grief does not cease at the house; it is exhibited in the procession to the grave, and the air is split with the wailings of real and of hired mourners. Professor Hackett (“Illustrations of Scripture,” pp. 121, 122) says: “During my stay at Jerusalem I frequently heard a singular cry issuing from the houses in the neighborhood of the place where I lodged, or from those on the streets through which I passed. It was to be heard at all hours - in the morning, at noonday, at evening, or in the deep silence of night. For some time I was at a loss to understand the cause of this strange interruption of the stillness which, for the most part, hangs so oppressively over the lonely city. Had it not been so irregular in its occurrence, I might have supposed it to indicate some festive occasion; for the tones of voice (yet hardly tones so much as shrieks) used for the expression of different feelings sound so much alike to the unpracticed ear, that it is not easy always to distinguish the mournful and the joyous from each other.

I ascertained, at length, that this special cry was, no doubt, in most instances, the signal of the death of some person in the house from which it was heard. It is customary, when a member of the family is about to die, for the friends to assemble around him and watch the ebbing away of life, so as to remark the precise moment when he breathes his last, upon which they set up instantly a united outcry, attended with weeping, and often with beating upon the breast, and tearing out the hair of the head. This lamentation they repeat at other times, especially at the funeral, both during the procession to the grave and after the arrival there, as they commit the remains to their last resting-place.”

The Jews were forbidden to tear their hair and cut their flesh. See Leviticus 19:28; Deuteronomy 14:1. They showed their grief by howling, by music, by concealing the chin with their garment, by rending the outer garment, by refusing to wash or anoint themselves, or to converse with people, by scattering ashes or dust in the air, or by lying down in them, Job 1:20; Job 2:12; 2 Samuel 1:2-4; 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 15:30; Mark 14:63. The expressions of grief, therefore, mentioned on this occasion, though excessive and foolish, were yet strictly in accordance with Eastern customs.

Matthew 9:24

The maid is not dead, but sleepeth - It cannot be supposed that our Lord means “literally” to say that the child was not dead.

Every possible evidence of her death had been given, and he acted on that himself, and conveyed to the people the idea that he raised her “from the dead.” He meant to speak in opposition to their opinions. It is not unlikely that Jairus and the people favored the opinions of the Sadducees, and that “they” understood by her being dead that she had “ceased to be,” and that she would never be raised up again. In opposition to this, the Saviour used the expression “she sleepeth;” affirming mildly both that the “body” was dead, and “implying” that “her spirit” still lived, and that she would be raised up again. A similar mode of speaking occurs in John 11:11 “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.” The sacred writers often spoke of the pious dead as “sleeping,” 2 Peter 3:4; Acts 7:60; 1 Corinthians 15:6, 1Co 15:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15. The meaning of this passage, then, is, the maid has not ceased to “exist;” but, though her body is dead, yet her spirit lives, and she sleeps in the hope of the resurrection.

Laughed him to scorn - Derided him; ridiculed him.

Matthew 9:25

He went in - With the father, and mother, and three disciples, Mark 5:37-40.

The maid arose - She returned to life.

There could be no deception here. “Parents” could not be imposed on in such a case, nor could such a multitude be deceived. The power of Jesus was undoubtedly shown to be sufficient to raise the dead.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 9:19. Jesus arose, and followed him — Our blessed Lord could have acted as well at a distance as present; but he goes to the place, to teach his ministers not to spare either their steps or their pains when the salvation of a soul is in question. Let them not think it sufficient to pray for the sick in their closets; but let them go to their bed-sides, that they may instruct and comfort them. He can have little unction in private, who does not also give himself up to public duties.


 
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