And they were laughing at Him, knowing that she was dead.
I have become a laughing-stock to my friends – one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!
Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!
All those who see Me mock Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and knowing sickness. And as one from whom the face is hidden, being despised, and we did not consider Him.
He said to them, “Go back, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” And they laughed at Him.
And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,
And they were all weeping and mourning for her, and He said, “Do not weep, she is not dead, but sleeps.”
But taking her by the hand He called, saying, “Child, arise.”
יהושע said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to Him, “Master, already he smells, for it is four days.”
