Luke Chapter 8 verse 53 Holy Bible
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
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And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.
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And they derided him, knowing that she had died.
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And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
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They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
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and they were deriding him, knowing that she did die;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 53. - 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 strengthWill 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 -
