Luke 8:53
And they derided him, knowing that she had died.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
In Context
54But he, taking her by the hand, cried out, saying, “Little girl, arise.”
Cross References
Job 12:4He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
Mark 15:44But Pilate wondered if he had already died. And summoning a centurion, he questioned him as to whether he was already dead.
John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to him, “Lord, by now it will smell, for this is the fourth day.”
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 →