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Luke 8:53

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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I have become the sport of my neighbors: “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him, The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;

Surely mockers surround me, at their provocation, my eyes grow dim.

But I am a worm, not a man, scorned by men, despised by the people.

He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

he said, “Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they ridiculed him.

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.

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

But he took her by the hand and called to her, “Child, arise!”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.”