The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 8:55

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He commanded to give her meat. She had been grievously ill, sick, we know, even to death; and now that the old strength and health had come back again, the Master felt she would at once, after her long abstinence, need food.

Even the child's mother was not so motherly as Jesus.

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