All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
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All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
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Every body weept and sorowed for her. And he sayde: Wepe not: for she is not deed but slepeth.
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And all wept, and sorowed for her: but he sayd, Weepe not: for she is not dead, but sleepeth.
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Passages linked to Luke 8:52 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 23:27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
- John 11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
- Genesis 23:2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 27:34-35 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.” He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
- Exodus 24:17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
- Jeremiah 9:17-21 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come. Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ” Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation. For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
- Zechariah 12:10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
- Matthew 11:17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
- Mark 5:38-39 He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
- John 11:11-13 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The word signifieth to beat and strike, and is…
The word signifieth to beat and strike, and is transferred to the mournings and lamentations, that are at burials, at which times men use such kind of behavior.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they laughed him to scorn,.... The servants, neighbours,…
And they laughed him to scorn,.... The servants, neighbours, and relations, the pipers, and mourning women: these, from weeping for the dead, fell to laughing at Christ, having him and his words in the utmost derision:
knowing that she was dead: some of them having been employed in laying her out, and all of them having seen her, and were satisfied, and thoroughly assured, that she was actually dead, as ever any person was, as she doubtless was; but they were ignorant in what sense Christ meant she was not dead, but asleep; See Gill on Mat 9:24. See Gill on Mar 5:39.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul…
She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 52. Not dead, but sleepeth—It was hardly to be…
52. Not dead, but sleepeth—It was hardly to be expected that such a commentator as Olshausen would quote this language in proof that this maiden was only in a state of suspended animation. What is more common in all languages and habits of human thought than the likening of death to sleep? If our Lord was really in this language endeavouring to state the literal fact, we have no doubt he would have had better success, and would have said outright, she is not dead, but is in a swoon, epilepsy, or a trance. Literally and physically an epilepsy is no more sleep than it is death. The disciples could have understood him no otherwise than saying, To you this is indeed death without hope of resurrection; but with me, in power and in purpose, it is but a sleep, from which she is now to be awakened.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 52. bewailed her] The word means that they were…
52. bewailed her] The word means that they were beating their breasts for her (Nah_2:7). St Mark gives a graphic picture of the tumult, and loud cries, and wailings (alalai, the Egyptian wilweleh). Even the poorest were obliged to provide for a funeral two flute- players and one wailing woman. See Ecc_12:5; Jer_9:17; Amo_5:16; 2Ch_35:25. These public mourners were called sappedans.
52. she. is not dead, but sleepeth] To take this literally is to contradict the letter and spirit of the whole narrative. It is true that in “our friend Lazarus sleepeth” the verb used is not katheudein but koimasthai; but that is in a different writer (Joh_11:11), and the word better suits one who had been four days dead. Our Lord’s object was to silence this idle uproar.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (52) All wept, and bewailed her.—Better, all were weeping…
(52) All wept, and bewailed her.—Better, all were weeping and bewailing her.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:52 The house was filled with people weeping and…
8:52 The house was filled with people weeping and wailing: See study note on 7:12. • she’s only asleep: Jesus emphasized the temporary nature of the girl’s state. For believers, death is only temporary “sleep” (cp. John 11:11; the same term is translated as “dead/died” in Acts 7:60; 13:36; 1 Cor 11:30; 15:6, 18, 20, 51; 1 Thes 4:14-15; 5:10).
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