Luke 8:52 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, “Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And all were weeping for and bewailing her; but He said, Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.

American Standard Version (1901)

And all were weeping, and bewailing her: but he said, Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth.

Common English Bible

They were all crying and mourning for her, but Jesus said, “Don’t cry. She isn’t dead. She’s only sleeping.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now all were weeping and mourning for her. But he said: "Do not weep. The girl is not dead, but only sleeping."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 8:52 Cross References

Genesis 23:2

And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

2 Samuel 18:33

And the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Exodus 24:17

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.

Matthew 11:17

‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 23:48

And all the multitudes who assembled to see the sight, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

Luke 8:51

And when he came to the house, he permitted no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.

Luke 8:53

And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

John 11:4

But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.”