DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
He translates them: "which means, 'Little girl, get up!'" Mark does the same with other Aramaic phrases — Ephphatha ("Be opened") — keeping the original words and explaining them.
Why it’s interesting
A writer who translates his own quotations is telling you something about his readers: they didn't speak Aramaic. It's one of the small clues scholars use to place Mark's audience.
Scholarly consensus
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