he charged: Mark 1:43, Mark 3:12, Mark 7:36; Matthew 8:4, Matthew 9:30, Matthew 12:16-18, Matthew 17:9; Luke 5:14, Luke 8:56; John 5:41
and commanded: This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus incideriṫ: "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.
Given: Luke 24:30, Luke 24:42-43; Acts 10:41