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Mark 5:41 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!” "
Mark 5:41
Verse in Context
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39 When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
42 Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
43 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
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Mark 5:1
"They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
Mark 5:2
"When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs."
Mark 5:3
"He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,"
Mark 5:4
"because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him."
Mark 5:5
"Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones."
Mark 5:6
"When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,"
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