δοὺς δὲ αὐτῇ χ.: here for help to her to rise, after she had been restored to life, but in the Gospels Christ takes the damsel by the hand before she is restored, Mark 5:41; Luke 8:54. Thus, while retaining a close resemblance, as we might surely expect, to our Lord's action in St. Mark's narrative, there is yet sufficient independence of detail to show that one description is not a slavish imitation of the other. τὰς χήρας : Rendall sees in the words reference to an organised body, 1 Timothy 5:11-16, engaged in the service of the Church, but the context only points to the widows who had been previously mentioned, species post genus, as in Acts 9:36 (Blass).

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