But they were ridiculing Him, knowing she had died.
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
Surely mockers are with me, my eyes must gaze on their hostility.
Am I a worm, and not a man? Am I a scorn of men, despised by people?
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.
He said, “Go away, for the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” And they began jeering at Him.
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and sneering at Yeshua.
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!”
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!”
