Luke 8:51
When He entered the house, He did not allow anyone to go in with Him except Peter, John, James, and the child's father and mother.
When He arrived
This phrase marks the arrival of Jesus at a significant moment. The Greek word used here is "παραγίνομαι" (paraginomai), which means to come or to be present. This arrival is not just a physical presence but signifies the divine intervention of Jesus in a moment of crisis. Historically, Jesus' presence often brought hope and change, and this instance is no different. His arrival is a turning point, emphasizing His authority and compassion.

at the house
The house represents a place of personal and familial significance. In Jewish culture, the home was a central part of life, a place of safety and community. The Greek word "οἶκος" (oikos) is used, which can mean both a physical house and a household or family. This setting underscores the personal nature of Jesus' ministry, as He often entered homes to bring healing and teaching, showing that His work was not confined to public spaces but extended into the intimate areas of life.

He did not let anyone go in
This phrase highlights Jesus' intentionality and discernment. The Greek verb "εἰσέρχομαι" (eiserchomai) means to enter. By restricting access, Jesus creates a controlled environment, focusing on the faith and presence of those who truly believe. This action reflects His wisdom in managing the situation, ensuring that the atmosphere is conducive to the miracle He is about to perform. It also serves as a reminder of the importance of faith and the exclusion of doubt in witnessing God's power.

with Him
The phrase indicates companionship and support. The Greek "μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ" (met' autou) suggests a close association. Jesus often chose a select few to accompany Him during significant events, emphasizing the importance of community and shared faith. This companionship is a model for Christian fellowship, where believers are encouraged to support one another in faith and witness the works of God together.

except Peter, John, and James
These three disciples are often singled out in the Gospels for special moments with Jesus. Their inclusion here is significant, as they are part of Jesus' inner circle. Historically, Peter, John, and James were leaders in the early church, and their experiences with Jesus prepared them for their future roles. Their presence underscores the importance of leadership and mentorship in the Christian faith, as they were witnesses to Jesus' power and later shared these experiences to strengthen the early church.

and the child’s father and mother
The presence of the child's parents is crucial, as it highlights the personal and familial impact of Jesus' miracles. In Jewish culture, family was of utmost importance, and the inclusion of the parents signifies the restoration of their household. The Greek words "πατήρ" (patēr) and "μήτηρ" (mētēr) emphasize the parental roles, underscoring the compassion of Jesus in addressing the grief and loss experienced by the family. This moment is a testament to Jesus' care for individuals and families, offering hope and restoration in times of despair.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus
The central figure in this passage, demonstrating His divine authority and compassion.

2. Peter, John, and James
The three disciples chosen by Jesus to witness the miracle, representing His inner circle.

3. The Child's Father and Mother
The parents of the girl who had died, representing faith and desperation in seeking Jesus' help.

4. The House
The setting of the miracle, symbolizing a place of both mourning and hope.

5. The Miracle of Raising the Dead
The event where Jesus raises the child from the dead, showcasing His power over life and death.
Teaching Points
The Importance of Faith
Jesus' selection of Peter, John, and James highlights the importance of faith and trust in witnessing His works.

Intimacy with Christ
Being part of Jesus' inner circle requires a close relationship with Him, characterized by obedience and faithfulness.

The Power of Jesus Over Death
This miracle demonstrates Jesus' authority over life and death, encouraging believers to trust in His power in all circumstances.

The Role of Witnesses
The presence of witnesses in this miracle underscores the importance of sharing and testifying to God's works in our lives.

Hope in Desperation
The parents' situation reminds us that in our most desperate times, turning to Jesus can bring hope and restoration.
Bible Study Questions
1. Why do you think Jesus only allowed Peter, John, James, and the child's parents to witness the miracle? How does this apply to the concept of spiritual intimacy today?

2. How does this passage encourage you to trust in Jesus' power over seemingly impossible situations in your life?

3. In what ways can you be a witness to Jesus' works in your own community, similar to Peter, John, and James?

4. How does the theme of resurrection in this passage connect to the hope of eternal life promised in the New Testament?

5. Reflect on a time when you were in a desperate situation. How did turning to Jesus change the outcome or your perspective?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Mark 5:37-43 and Matthew 9:23-26
These parallel accounts provide additional details and perspectives on the same event, emphasizing the significance of Jesus' miracle.

Acts 9:36-42
Peter, one of the witnesses, later performs a similar miracle, raising Tabitha from the dead, showing the continuation of Jesus' power through His disciples.

Hebrews 11:35
This verse speaks of women receiving their dead back to life, connecting to the theme of resurrection and faith.
A Group of MiraclesR.M. Edga Luke 8:22-56
A Glorified MemoryLuke 8:49-56
Christian Consolation Under Bereavement by DeathA. H. K. BoydLuke 8:49-56
Consolation for MournersT. Gibson, M. A.Luke 8:49-56
Death and LifeBishop W. H. Odenheimer.Luke 8:49-56
Death Pleasingly DescribedI. D'Israeli.Luke 8:49-56
He Commanded to Give Her MeatH. Macmillan, LL. D.Luke 8:49-56
Manly FaithJ. Clifford, D. D.Luke 8:49-56
Not Death But SleepJ. R. Bailey.Luke 8:49-56
On the Death of Little ChildrenT. Gasquoine, B. A.Luke 8:49-56
Our Lost ChildrenE. AstonLuke 8:49-56
Talitha CumiH. Macmillan, LL. D., N. P. Willis.Luke 8:49-56
The Christian's Death a SleepT. Sharp, M. A.Luke 8:49-56
The Daughter of JairusR. H. Lovell.Luke 8:49-56
The Master of LifeC. Stanford, D. D.Luke 8:49-56
The Ruler's Daughter Raised to LifeW. Jay.Luke 8:49-56
What Withers on Earth Blooms in HeavenJean Paul Richter.Luke 8:49-56
People
Chuza, Herod, Jair, Jairus, James, Jesus, Joanna, John, Mary, Peter, Susanna
Places
Galilee, Gerasa
Topics
Allow, Allowed, Anyone, Child, Child's, Didn't, Enter, Except, Girl, Girl's, Jairus, James, John, Maiden, Permitted, Peter, Save, Suffered
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Luke 8:51

     5113   Peter, disciple
     7621   disciples, calling

Luke 8:40-55

     2012   Christ, authority

Luke 8:41-55

     2066   Christ, power of
     5194   touch

Luke 8:49-55

     5669   children, examples

Luke 8:49-56

     4438   eating
     5695   girls

Library
June 28 Evening
The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.--I TIM. 4:1. Take heed therefore how ye hear.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

November 24 Morning
My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.--LUKE 8:21. Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren: saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.--In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.--Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.--Blessed are they
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

Seed among Thorns
'And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.'--Luke viii. 14. No sensible sower would cast his seed among growing thorn-bushes, and we must necessarily understand that the description in this verse is not meant to give us the picture of a field in which these were actually growing, but rather of one in which they had been grubbed up, and so preparation been made
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Christ to Jairus
'When Jesus heard it, He answered, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.' --LUKE viii. 60. The calm leisureliness of conscious power shines out very brilliantly from this story of the raising of Jairus's daughter. The father had come to Jesus, in an agony of impatience, and besought Him to heal his child, who lay 'at the point of death.' Not a moment was to be lost. Our Lord sets out with him, but on the road pauses to attend to another sufferer, the woman who laid her wasted
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

The Ministry of Women
'And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, 3. And Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto Him of their substance.' --LUKE viii. 2,3. The Evangelist Luke has preserved for us several incidents in our Lord's life in which women play a prominent part. It would not, I think, be difficult to bring that fact into connection with the main characteristics of his Gospel,
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

One Seed and Diverse Soils
'And when much people were gathered together, and were come to Him out of every city, He spake by a parable: 5. A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

A Miracle Within a Miracle
'And a woman, having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44. Came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. 45. And Jesus said, Who touched Me? When all denied, Peter, and they that were with Him, said, Master, the multitude throng Thee and press Thee, and sayest Thou, Who touched Me? 46. And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched Me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

The Sower and the Seed.
"A sower went out to sow his seed."--ST. LUKE viii. 5. It is significant that the first of the Saviour's parables is the parable of the sower, that the first thing to which He likens His own work is that of the sower of seed, the first lesson He has to impress upon us by any kind of comparison is that the word of God is a seed sown in our hearts, a something which contains in it the germ of a new life. It is no less significant that He returns so often to this same kind of comparison for the purpose
John Percival—Sermons at Rugby

Our Relations to the Departed
"She is not dead, but sleepeth." Luke viii.52 A Great peculiarity of the Christian religion is its transforming or transmuting power. I speak not now of the regeneration which accomplishes in the individual soul, but of the change it works upon things without. It applies the touchstone to every fact of existence, and exposes its real value. Looking through the lens of spiritual observation, it throws the realities of life into a reverse perspective from that which is seen by the sensual eye. Objects
E. H. Chapin—The Crown of Thorns

Further Journeying About Galilee.
^C Luke VIII. 1-3. ^c 1 And it came to pass soon afterwards [ i. e.,. soon after his visit to the Pharisee], that he went about through cities and villages [thus making a thorough circuit of the region of Galilee], preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God [John had preached repentance as a preparation for the kingdom; but Jesus now appears to have preached the kingdom itself, which was indeed to bring good tidings--Rom. xiv. 17 ], and with him the twelve [We here get a glimpse
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Ministry of Love, the Blasphemy of Hatred, and the Mistakes of Earthly Affection - the Return to Capernaum - Healing of the Demonised Dumb -
HOWEVER interesting and important to follow the steps of our Lord on His journey through Galilee, and to group in their order the notices of it in the Gospels, the task seems almost hopeless. In truth, since none of the Evangelists attempted - should we not say, ventured - to write a Life' of the Christ, any strictly historical arrangement lay outside their purpose. Their point of view was that of the internal, rather than the external development of this history. And so events, kindred in purpose,
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

There are Some Things of this Sort Even of Our Saviour in the Gospel...
27. There are some things of this sort even of our Saviour in the Gospel, because the Lord of the Prophets deigned to be Himself also a Prophet. Such are those where, concerning the woman which had an issue of blood, He said, "Who touched Me?" [2431] and of Lazarus. "Where have ye laid him?" [2432] He asked, namely, as if not knowing that which in any wise He knew. And He did on this account feign that He knew not, that He might signify somewhat else by that His seeming ignorance: and since this
St. Augustine—Against Lying

The Right to what I Consider a Normal Standard of Living
"Have we no right to eat and to drink?"--I Corinthians 9:4 The white-haired mission secretary looked at me quizzically. "Well," he said, "it's all in your point of view. We find that these days in the tropics people may look upon the missionary's American refrigerator as a normal and necessary thing; but the cheap print curtains hanging at his windows may be to them unjustifiable extravagance!" * * * * * My mind goes back to a simple missionary home in China, with a cheap
Mabel Williamson—Have We No Rights?

In Troubles --
The king had before this time noticed a spot of immense military importance on the Seine between Rouen and Paris, the rock of Andelys. Indeed he had once tossed three Frenchmen from the rock. It was, or might be, the key to Normandy on the French side, and he feared lest Philip should seize upon it and use it against him. Consequently he pounced upon it, and began to fortify it at lavish expense. Archbishop Walter of Rouen, and late of Lincoln, in whose ecclesiastical patrimony it lay, was furious,
Charles L. Marson—Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln

Faith a New and Comprehensive Sense.

John Newton—Olney Hymns

Sundry Sharp Reproofs
This doctrine draws up a charge against several sorts: 1 Those that think themselves good Christians, yet have not learned this art of holy mourning. Luther calls mourning a rare herb'. Men have tears to shed for other things, but have none to spare for their sins. There are many murmurers, but few mourners. Most are like the stony ground which lacked moisture' (Luke 8:6). We have many cry out of hard times, but they are not sensible of hard hearts. Hot and dry is the worst temper of the body. Sure
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12

Thankfulness for Mercies Received, a Necessary Duty
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. When God placed the first man in paradise, his soul no doubt was so filled with a sense of the riches of the divine love, that he was continually employing that breath of life, which the Almighty had not long before breathed into him, in blessing and magnifying that all-bountiful,
George Whitefield—Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

The General Observations are These.
There are in these relations proper circumstances of time and place, and the names and characters of persons. Of the miracle on Jairus's daughter, the time and place are sufficiently specified by St. Mark and St. Luke. It was soon after his crossing the sea of Galilee, after Jesus had cured the men possessed with devils in the country of the Gergesenes, Mark v. 21. And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. And behold
Nathaniel Lardner—A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles

R. W. Begins his Fifth Discourse, P. 1, 2. With Saying, that He is Now
to take into examination the three miracles of Jesus's raising the dead, viz. of Jairus's daughter, Matth. ix. Mark. v. Luke viii. of the widow of Naim's son, Luke vii. and of Lazarus, John xi: the literal stories of which, he says, he shall shew to consist of absurdities, improbabilities, and incredibilities, in order to the mystical interpretation of them. I have read over his examination of these miracles, and am still of opinion, that the histories of them are credible. I. I will therefore first
Nathaniel Lardner—A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles

The Second Miracle at Cana.
^D John IV. 46-54. ^d 46 He came therefore again [that is, in consequence of the welcome which awaited him] Unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine [see page 114]. And there was a certain nobleman [literally, "king's man:" a word which Josephus uses to designate a soldier, courtier, or officer of the king. He was doubtless an officer of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. That it was Chuzas (Luke viii. 3) or Manaen (Acts xiii. 1) is mere conjecture], whose son was sick at Capernaum. [The
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Ancient Versions of the Old Testament.
In the present chapter only those versions of the Old Testament are noticed which were made independently of the New. Versions of the whole Bible, made in the interest of Christianity, are considered in the following part. I. THE GREEK VERSION CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT. 1. This is worthy of special notice as the oldest existing version of the holy Scriptures, or any part of them, in any language; and also as the version which exerted a very large influence on the language and style of the New Testament;
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible

General Remarks on the History of Missions in this Age.
THE operations of Christianity are always radically the same, because they flow from its essential character, and its relations to human nature; yet it makes some difference whether it is received amongst nations to whom it was previously quite unknown, either plunged in barbarism or endowed with a certain degree of civilization, proceeding from some other form of religion, or whether it attaches itself to an already existing Christian tradition. In the latter case, it will indeed have to combat
Augustus Neander—Light in the Dark Places

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