Mark 5:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.

And he cometh - rather 'they come' х erchontai (G2064) has much better support than erchetai (G2064)] - to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly - "the minstrels and the people making a noise" (Matthew 9:23) - lamenting for the dead. (See 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:20; Amos 5:16.)

Mark 5:38

38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.