They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
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They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
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And they lewgh him to scorne. For they knew that she was deed.
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And they laught him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.
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- Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Luke 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- Job 12:4 I 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.
- Job 17:2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
- Psalms 22:7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
- Mark 15:44-45 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
- John 11:39 Jesus 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.”
- John 19:33-35 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he put them all out,.... Of the room,…
And he put them all out,.... Of the room, where the maiden lay, all the mourners and pipers; all excepting the parents of the child, and his three disciples, This clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions; nor was it in two of Beza's ancient copies, and in two of Stephens's; but in the rest, and in the other versions:
and took hereby the hand, and called, saying; in the Syriac language, "Talitha cumi", as in Mar 5:41
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Maid, arise; See Gill on Mar 5:41.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 53. They laughed him to scorn—It was the crowd…
53. They laughed him to scorn—It was the crowd of “minstrels and people making a great noise,” and whom Jesus put forth from the room, who laughed; suddenly changing their hired hypocritical mourning to scorn. Their scorn is expressed at the very idea that she is not dead; thus with Olshausen, putting the literal construction on Jesus’s term sleepeth. That the maiden was actually dead we thus have the testimony of the father, of the messengers to the father from home, and now in the most intense form of these mercenary mourners. The scorn they felt at Jesus was excited, doubtless, by the indications furnished in his word sleepeth that he was about to deprive them of a profitable job in their trade of professional howling.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 53. laughed him to scorn] Literally, “were utterly deriding…
53. laughed him to scorn] Literally, “were utterly deriding Him” ‘To laugh to scorn’ is used by Shakespeare, e.g.
“Our castle’s strength
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Will laugh a siege to scorn.”
Macbeth, v. 5.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They laughed him to scorn. These were, no doubt,…
They laughed him to scorn. These were, no doubt, the hired mourners. Familiar as they were with death, they ridiculed the idea of one whom they knew had passed away, awaking again as from a sleep. These public mourners were customary figures in all Jewish homes, even in the poorest where a death had occurred. They are still usual throughout the Levant. The expression, "laughed him to scorn," is found in Shakespeare"Our castle"s strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. ("Macbeth," act 5. sc. 5.)
The Aramaic words, Talitha, kumi! "Maid, arise!" were just homely words, spoken in the language which the little.girl was in the habit of hearing and using. The Master"s tender care for the child was shown not merely in the choice of the language and the words, but in his loving thought after her resurrection, for we read how
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