Expository Thoughts (continued)
believing wives. Believing parents shall once more see believing children. Christ shall unite the whole family in the great home in heaven, and all tears shall be wiped from all eyes.
Notes on 8:49-56
51. Peter, John and James. These three apostles were three times singled out from the rest of the twelve and allowed to be with our Lord on special occasions. They were with him during his transfiguration, in the garden of Gethsemane, and during this miracle. None of the apostles had such a clear revelation of our Lord's divinity, our Lord's humanity, and our Lord's power and compassion toward the sorrowful and sinful.
55. Give her something to eat. This would be proof positive that her body really was alive again and that her parents saw no vision, but real flesh and blood. It is the same evidence which our Lord gave his disciples after his own rising from the dead (see Luke 24:41-43).