But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed - the one in imitation of His Master's way (Luke 8:54, and compare 2 Kings 4:33); the other in striking contrast with it. The kneeling befitted the lowly servant, but not the Lord Himself-of whom it is never once recorded that He knelt in the performance of a miracle: and this although, during His mysterious soul-agony in the garden, one of the three evangelists who record that scene, states expressly that He "kneeled down," and the two others, that He "fell on His face," and "upon the ground."
And turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. This graphic minuteness of detail imparts to the narrative an air of charming reality.