Jesus Laughed to Scorn - Mark 5:40

Mark wrote how Jesus was on the way to Jairus' house because his daughter was dying. Along the way a woman with an issue of blood came behind Jesus and was determined to be healed if she only touched His clothes. She was healed and Jesus said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in peace, and be whole of your plague.” Mark added the words, “While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter is dead: why trouble you the Master any further?As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. And he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he said unto them, Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleeps”, and in chapter five and verse forty of his book, Mark wrote how the people in the house, “laughed him to scorn” where we read:

And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying.

The verse reads, “And they laughed him to scorn.” Mark began with the words, “and they laughed him” or “and the people who were weeping and mourning within Jairus' house derided and laughed down Jesus” “to scorn” which means “to ridicule and derision”. Mark shared how the people within the house who were “mourning” began to “deride” Jesus to the point of “ridicule”.

The verse continues, “But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying.” Mark added the words, “but when” which means “nevertheless, moreover and at the time and moment” “he had put them all out” or “Jesus drove out and expelled all the people who were mourning”, “he took the father and the mother of the damsel” which means “Jesus led the father and mother of the young little girl”, “and them that were with him” which refers to “Peter, James and John”, “and entered in where the damsel was lying” or “and came into the room where the young little girl was reclining and lying down”. Mark shared how Jesus expelled all the people in the room except the “little girl's” mother and father and His three disciples “Peter, James and John”.

When we consider Mark's words in this verse, we see how Jesus wanted everyone except those who were most important in the room with the little girl. Though others there were attempting to commiserate with the family, Jesus knew only He, His disciples and the father and mother of the “damsel” needed to be in the room at that time. Jesus had a plan to “save” the “little girl” which included clearing the room of all the people who were not needed by Him either to help or observe. God desires to “save” every person who will yield their life to Him as their personal “Savior and Lord”, and those who are wise will not only follow His lead, but also submit to Him and His plan to rescue them from sin's penalty of “death”.

Next time Mark shares how Jesus, “took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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