Mark 5:23 (BSB)
and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
Commentary on Mark 5:23
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 5:21-34: The Gadarenes having desired Christ to leave their country, he did not stay to trouble them long, but presently went by water, as he came, back to the other side (Mar 5:21), and there much people gathered to him. Note, If there be some that reject Christ, yet there are others that receive him, and bid him welcome.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 5:23: 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...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 5:23: Verse 23. Lieth at the point of death. Is dying; in the last agonies. (f) "point of death"
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 5:23: 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. At the point of death - Εσχατως εχει, in the last extremity, the last gasp. See on Mat 9:18 (note).