<p>9:37 <i>And it came to pass in those days, that she fell sick and died, and when</i> <em>they had washed her</em>- Why mention this detail? Was it to recall her baptism, which gave her the hope of bodily resurrection?</p><p><em>They laid her in an upper room</em>- Luke brings out her identification with the church, the body of Christ, which was so associated with 'upper rooms' in its earliest days.</p>