Luke 8:52
The people were weeping and bewailing her, but he said. "Stop your wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
In Context
53They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.
Cross References
Mark 5:38As they came to the house of the warden of the synagogue, he gazed upon a tumult, many weeping and wailing shrilly.
John 11:4When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."
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 →