Luke 8:53
They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
In Context
52All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She is not dead, but sleeping.”
54But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”
Cross References
Psalms 22:7+ 22:7. MP: Messiah is mocked by people shaking their heads. (Matt 27:39-40) All who see me jeer at + 22:7. Quoted in Luke 23:35 me. 2 They insult me and shake their heads: + 22:7. Quoted in Matt 27:39 2
Mark 15:44Pilate [Armed with javelin] marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
John 11:39Yeshua [Salvation] said, “Take away the stone.” Martha [Lady mistress, Strong bitterness], the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead 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 →