Luke 8:52
And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
In Context
53And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.
Cross References
Genesis 27:34And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!
2 Samuel 18:33Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Zechariah 12:10And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
Mark 5:38And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly.
John 11:4When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.
Matthew Henry on Luke 8:41-56
The Issue of Blood Healed; The Ruler's Daughter Raised. 40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him. 41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him. 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve… Read the whole commentary →