"Why this confusion and weeping?" he said on entering. "The little child is not dead; she is asleep."
He said: "Go away, the little girl is not dead; she is asleep." They began to laugh at him;
Presently they reached the President's house, where Jesus saw a scene of confusion--people weeping and wailing incessantly.
They began to laugh at him; but he sent them all out, and then, with the child's father and mother and his companions, went into the room where she was lying.
But Paul went down, threw himself upon him, and put his arms round him. "Do not be alarmed," he said, "he is still alive."
That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.
That, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him.