But they were ridiculing Him, knowing she had died.
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and sneering at Yeshua.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Yeshua says, “Roll away the stone!” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to Him, “Master, by this time he stinks! He’s been dead for four days!”
Am I a worm, and not a man? Am I a scorn of men, despised by people?
Surely mockers are with me, my eyes must gaze on their hostility.
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
He said, “Go away, for the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” And they began jeering at Him.
And everyone was weeping and lamenting her; but He said, “Don’t weep, for she didn’t die but is sleeping.”
But Yeshua, took her by the hand and called out, saying, “Child, get up!”
