Luke 8:52
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
In Context
53And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
Cross References
Genesis 27:34And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
2 Samuel 18:33And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Zechariah 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Mark 5:38And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
John 11:4When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
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 →