Luke 8:53
Good News Translation
They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

New Revised Standard Version
And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

Contemporary English Version
The people laughed at him because they knew she was dead.

New American Bible
And they ridiculed him, because they knew that she was dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

laughed.

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Job 12:4 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

Job 17:2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

Psalm 22:7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

knowing.

Mark 15:44,45 But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead. . . .

John 11:39 Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

John 19:33-35 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. . . .

Context
The Healing Touch of Jesus
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. 54But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:24
He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Luke 8:52
And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

Luke 8:54
But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise.

Luke 8:52
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