Mark 5:39

Ado. Gr. thorubeo, “to make a noise,” “to disturb,” “to throw into confusion,” or “to wail tumultuously.” In Acts 17:5 thorubeo is translated “set ... on an uproar.”

Sleepeth. No more appropriate comparison could be found for death than that of sleep, which so often means release from weariness, toil, disappointment, and pain. As the eyes of a weary child are closed in sleep for the night, so the eyes of those who love God and who look forward with confidence to the day when His voice shall awaken them to life immortal are closed in the peaceful and undisturbed sleep of death (see 1 Cor. 15:51-55; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17). The comforting metaphor by which “sleep” stands for “death” seems to have been Christ’s favorite way of referring to this experience (see on John 11:11-15). Death is a sleep, but it is a deep sleep from which only the great Life-giver can awaken one, for He alone has the keys to the tomb (see Rev. 1:18; cf. John 3:16; Rom. 6:23).