Luke 8:53
And they laughed hym to scorne, knowyng that she was dead.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
In Context
52Euery body wept, & sorowed for her. And he sayde: Weepe not, the damsell is not dead, but slepeth.
54And he thrust them all out, and toke her by the hande, and cryed, saying: Mayde, aryse.
Cross References
Mark 15:44And Pilate marueyled that he was alredy dead: and called vnto hym the Centurion, and asked of hym, whether he had ben any whyle dead.
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 →