And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
And he took the damsel by the hand [as He did Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1:31 )] and said unto her, Talitha cumi. The words are Aramaic, or Syro-Chaldaic, the then language of Palestine. Mark loves to give such wonderful words just as they were spoken. See Mark 7:34; Mark 14:36. [`Cum' is evidently the true reading, being the popular form of the other, to which it has been corrected as the more accurate form Taaiytaa'(See Taaleh (H2924) quwmiy (H6965)].