Luke 8:53

and they were deriding Him, knowing that she died;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

In Context

52and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and He said, “Do not weep, she did not die, but sleeps”;

54and He having put all forth outside, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, “Child, arise”;

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Cross References

Job 12:4I am a laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, || A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.

Psalms 22:7All beholding Me mock at Me, || They make free with the lip—shake the head,

Mark 15:44And Pilate wondered if He were already dead, and having called near the centurion, questioned him if He were long dead,

John 11:39Jesus says, “Take away the stone”; the sister of him who has died—Martha—says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks, for he is four days 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 →

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