Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.I'm not sure the purpose of this instruction. The girl was apparently very clearly dead, and now she wasn't. At the very least, those who had been there mourning certainly would have figured out what had happened.
Also, note the contrast between this and his healing at the beginning of the chapter. There, he told the man who'd been cured of demons to tell everyone what had happened; here, bringing a girl back from the dead was a private matter. What was the difference? Perhaps it was because the demon-possessed man was living among non-believers (they herded pigs, after all), whereas the girl and her family were Jewish?
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