Mark 5:34 (BSB)
“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”
Commentary on Mark 5:34
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Mark 5:34: Mark 5:34. Go in peace, and be delivered from thy scourge. From this exhortation we infer that the benefit which she had obtained was fully ratified, when she heard from the lips of Christ what she had already learned from experience: for we do not truly, or with a safe conscience, enjoy God’s benefits in any other way than by possessing them as contained in the treasury of his promises.
- 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 5:34: And he said unto her, daughter,.... Instead of reproving her, or showing any anger, or resentment at her, as she feared, he speaks to her in a very soft, kind, and tender manner, and called her "daughter", which was not only an expression of affection and civility, this being an affable, courteous way of speaking used by the Jews; but might signify her spiritual relation...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 5:34: Verse 34. Daughter. A word of kindness, tending to inspire confidence, and to dissipate her fears. Be whole. That is, continue to be whole; for she was already cured. Of thy plague. Thy disease; literally, thy scourge. So a word from Jesus heals the moral malady of the sinner. (m) "faith hath made" (n) "go in peace"