When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.
He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
For this cause many amongst you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.