9:16,17
No one, except Jesus, realised the enormity of what was happening, nor the enormity of who Jesus was. This was not a mere continuation of the past, not a mere rerun of things that had happened before but at an enhanced level. The Son of God was living among them. If they tried to contain the new wine in the old wine skins they would simply burst, they could not contain it.
9:18,19
While the opposition to Jesus came mostly from the Pharisees and other religious leaders, not all the religious leaders were against Him. A synagogue leader would be fairly low down the pecking order, nonetheless he was an important man in the local community, and when his daughter died he went to Jesus. Note that at this point while Jesus has healed many, He has not raised anyone from the dead. Mark and Luke, as is normal, have longer accounts, and when Jairus (the synagogue leader) came his daughter was seriously ill, but later people sent news that she was dead. Matthew just focuses on the fact that Jesus was going to bring a dead girl back to life. So Jesus and the disciples went to Jairus’s house.
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