" 'Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.' And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all outside, He took the father and mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child was lying. Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, 'Talitha, cumi,' which is translated, 'Little girl, I say to you, arise.' Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were overcome with amazement."
"And He said, 'The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.' "
Jesus replaced illness and apparent death with life. What He did changed ridicule to amazement. The interaction was evidence of His oneness with the Father. Surely, those who had been grieving over the child must have recognized this. The man who sowed the seed did not know how the seed would grow, but he surely recognized the fruit when it came to completion.
The apostle, Paul, admonishes at the end his letter to the Corinthians, praying that we be "made complete" and "become complete"; to be weak In Him but living with Him by the power of God. Our being made complete in Him, by Him, will change ridicule to amazement.
