Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Mark: Chapter 5].
happened" (\gegonen\, second perfect active indicative, still
true) to her. {Fell down before him} (\prosepesen aut•i\). That
was the only proper attitude now. {All the truth} (\p•san t•n
al•theian\). Secrecy was no longer possible. She told "the
pitiful tale of chronic misery" (Bruce).
5:34 {Go in peace} (\Hupage eis eir•n•n\). She found sympathy,
healing, and pardon for her sins, apparently. Peace here may have
more the idea of the Hebrew _shal•m_, health of body and soul. So
Jesus adds: "Be whole of thy plague" (\isthi hugi•s apo t•s
mastigos sou\). Continue whole and well.
5:35 {While he yet spake} (\Eti autou lalountos\). Genitive
absolute. Another vivid touch in Mark and Lu 8:49. The phrase
is in Ge 29:9. Nowhere does Mark preserve better the lifelike
traits of an eyewitness like Peter than in these incidents in
chapter 5. The arrival of the messengers from Jairus was
opportune for the woman just healed of the issue of blood (\en
husei haimatos\) for it diverted attention from her. Now the
ruler's daughter has died (\apethane\). {Why troublest thou the
master any further?} (\Ti eti skulleis ton didaskalon;\). It was
all over, so they felt. Jesus had raised from the dead the son of
the widow of Nain (Lu 7:11-17), but people in general did not
expect him to raise the dead. The word \skull•\, from \skulon\
(_skin, pelt, spoils_), means to skin, to flay, in Aeschylus.
Then it comes to mean to vex, annoy, distress as in Mt 9:36,
which see. The middle is common in the papyri for bother, worry,
as in Lu 7:6. There was no further use in troubling the Teacher
about the girl.
5:36 {Not heeding} (\parakousas\). This is the sense in Mt
18:17 and uniformly so in the LXX. But here the other sense of
hearing aside, overhearing what was not spoken directly to him,
probably exists also. "Jesus might overhear what was said and
disregard its import" (Bruce). Certainly he ignored the
conclusion of the messengers. The present participle \laloumenon\
suits best the idea of overhearing. Both Mark and Lu 8:50 have
"Fear not, only believe" (\m• phobou, monon pisteue\). This to
the ruler of the synagogue (\t•i archisunag•g•i\) who had
remained and to whom the messenger had spoken.
5:37 {Save Peter, and James, and John} (\ei m• Petron kai lak•bon
kai I•an•n\). Probably the house was too small for the other
disciples to come in with the family. The first instance of this
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