Luke 8:54 - The Message54-56 Then Jesus, gripping her hand, called, “My dear child, get up.” She was up in an instant, up and breathing again! He told them to give her something to eat. Her parents were ecstatic, but Jesus warned them to keep quiet. “Don’t tell a soul what happened in this room.” Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176954 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition54 And grasping her hand, He called, saying, Child, arise [from the sleep of death]! Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)54 But he, taking her by the hand, called, saying, Maiden, arise. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible54 Taking her hand, Jesus called out, “Child, get up.” Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version54 But he, taking her by the hand, cried out, saying, "Little girl, arise." Ver Capítulo |
We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”