Luke 8:52
Good News Translation
Everyone there was crying and mourning for the child. Jesus said, "Don't cry; the child is not dead--she is only sleeping!"

New Revised Standard Version
They were all weeping and wailing for her; but he said, “Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Contemporary English Version
Everyone was crying and weeping for the girl. But Jesus said, "The child isn't dead. She is just asleep."

New American Bible
All were weeping and mourning for her, when he said, “Do not weep any longer, for she is not dead, but sleeping.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

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Genesis 23:2 And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

Genesis 27:34,35 Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father. . . .

2 Samuel 18:33 The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son, my son Absalom.

Jeremiah 9:17-21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: . . .

Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

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Mark 5:38,39 And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much. . . .

John 11:4,11-13 And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it. . . .

Context
The Healing Touch of Jesus
51And when he was come to the house, he suffered not any man to go in with him, but Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of the maiden. 52And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth. 53And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:17
Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

Luke 8:51
And when he was come to the house, he suffered not any man to go in with him, but Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of the maiden.

Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

Luke 23:27
And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 23:48
And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their breasts.

John 11:13
But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.

Luke 8:51
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