Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Mark: Chapter 5].
tell of the request for Jesus to leave. They feared the power of
Jesus and wanted no further interference with their business
affairs.
5:18 {As he was entering} (\embainontos autou\). The man began to
beseech him (\parekalei\) before it was too late.
5:19 {Go to thy house unto thy friends} (\Hupage eis ton oikon
sou pros tous sous\). "To thy own folks" rather than "thy
friends." Certainly no people needed the message about Christ
more than these people who were begging Jesus to leave. Jesus had
greatly blessed this man and so gave him the hardest task of all,
to go home and witness there for Christ. In Galilee Jesus had
several times forbidden the healed to tell what he had done for
them because of the undue excitement and misunderstanding. But
here it was different. There was no danger of too much enthusiasm
for Christ in this environment.
5:20 {He went his way} (\ap•lthen\). He went off and did as Jesus
told him. He heralded (\k•russein\) or published the story till
all over Decapolis men marvelled (\ethaumazon\) at what Jesus
did, kept on marvelling (imperfect tense). The man had a greater
opportunity for Christ right in his home land than anywhere else.
They all knew this once wild demoniac who now was a new man in
Christ Jesus. Thousands of like cases of conversion under
Christ's power have happened in rescue missions in our cities.
5:23 {My little daughter} (\to thugatrion mou\). Diminutive of
\thugat•r\ (Mt 9:18). "This little endearing touch in the use
of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark" (Vincent). "Is at the
point of death" (\eschat•s echei\). Has it in the last stages.
Mt 9:18 has: "has just died" (\arti eteleusen\), Luke "she lay
a dying" (\apethn•sken\, imperfect, she was dying). It was a
tragic moment for Jairus. {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 _Koin•_ (Robertson, _Grammar_,
p. 943).
5:24 {He went with him} (\ap•lthen\). Aorist tense. Went off with
him promptly, but a great multitude followed him (\•kolouthei\),
was following, kept following (imperfect tense). {They thronged
him} (\sunethlibon auton\). Imperfect tense again. Only example
of (here and in verse 31) this compound verb in the N.T.,
common in old Greek. Were pressing Jesus so that he could hardly
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