“Doubting Jesus is not a recent thing. It’s been going on for two thousand years. It happened in Jesus’ day. And Luke is interested in addressing those doubts about Jesus, that skepticism about Him. In this passage it’s interesting, even Peter is a little baffled with Jesus in this passage. And then later the people who are mourning in the household of Jairus are baffled with Him to the point that they laugh at Him. This is brought to our attention because Luke wants to put before us a truth claim about Jesus that flows out of something that He actually did, something that would have been indisputable to the people who saw it in that town, that is designed to address the doubts that they have about Jesus.”