Luke 8:53
They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
World English 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 isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
54But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”
Cross References
Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Psalms 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Mark 15:44Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, 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 →