Don 39;t Starve Together Give Command

[Marcelo Chaplin]

Thegospel record is completely silent about the cause of death of Jairus' daughter. However, being the synagogue ruler, it is extremely unlikely (to the point of impossibility) that Jairus was starving his daughter.

And also look at Verse 42 which says she started walking about on getting up from her deathbed .She must have been hungry and looking for food. Now, human body has a self-regulating method of consumption of food .Once you are sick, maximum energy is diverted to the affected organs so as to cure them. Less energy is used in digestion of food .That leads to loss of appetite and the tendency to vomit out the food already taken in. A child of twelve years in good health is sure to consume more food for additional energy. Hence the direction of Jesus, the Greatest Physician!

One more interpretation for Verse 43: If a guest to a family tells the mother to give food to her children she will be offended ( Mind your business, young man, I know when my children need food !) Jesus wants Jairus to treat him as an integral part of the family,and not as a guest. So he takes on himself the 'privilege' of asking the household to give food to the child.

Good Question .What is so amazing about the Bible is its correspondence to the real world events, and to real-time history. A fairy tale or mythological writing would overlook the intimate details of reality...but not the Bible. There is an old book called Remarkable Incidents that lists many of the minute details, casually given, that confirm the authenticity of the Bible.Jesus's command illustrates this: He recognizes the reality of effects of death on a body: physical dehydration, lack of sustenance (protein) for life.

We know by Jesus's words that the girl was really dead, not just in a coma. His miracle of the resurrection of a dead body is validated by the need for food being given right away! And the ability of the girl to eat showed actual healing.

If Jesus wanted to be greatly emphatic, He would have used diatasso, entello, keleuo, protasso. These are variously translated as "Command, enjoin, give order, charge, strong injunction, etc." So, too much weight or consideration is given to the KJV usage of "command"! The emphatic word used in the first half of this verse in question, was diesteilato, "charged them straitly." (KJV) With a different meaning from our word, which is much more moderate.

The story of Mark 5:21-43 is blending two of Jesus' perfect works together: 1) the healing of a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years, and 2) the raising of a 12 year old damsel. It is also showing the spiritual significance of the number 12. When Jesus was 12 years old He was found in the temple, hearing and asking questions of the doctors (Luke 2:46), telling his mother, who inquired of Him,and those with her: Don't you know I must be about my Father's business?

Because of the age of the damsel, she was now entering adulthood, and it was important she get spiritual food, which her father, being one of the rulers of the synagogue, had been providing others, and possibly neglecting her needs (necessitating Jesus issuing a command). Jesus, raising her from the dead, and "commanding" to her parents that she be given something to eat, shows the spiritual significance of the number 12 in Scripture: God's power and authority; completing one phase in life and entering another, and the need for spiritual food for this new phase of life.

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