Luke 8:52

Now all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but asleep.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

In Context

51When He came into the house, He permitted no one to enter except Peter, John, and James, and the father and mother of the child.

53And they were ridiculing Him, knowing that she had died.

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Cross References

Mark 5:38And He went to the house of the synagogue leader, and observed a commotion, and people weeping and wailing, very much.

John 11:4And when Jesus heard, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through 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 →

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