Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
In Context
52And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not; the maid is not dead, but sleepeth.
54But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise.
Cross References
Job 12:4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
Psalms 22:7But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
Mark 15:44But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead.
John 11:39Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.
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 →