After entering, He said to them, “Why make such a fuss and weep? The child didn’t die, but is sleeping.”
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.
He said, “Go away, for the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” And they began jeering at Him.
They come to the house of the synagogue leader. He sees a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
They start jeering at Him. But after sending all of them out, He takes the child’s father and mother, and those with Him, and enters where the child was.
But Paul went down, fell on him and threw his arms around him. He said, “Don’t be upset, for his life is within him.”
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and quite a few have died.
He died for us so that, whether we may be awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.