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They laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
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The Scorn of Unbelief
Commentators note the professional mourners immediately turned from feigned grief to genuine scorn, laughing at Jesus. They misunderstood His statement that the girl was "sleeping" as a denial of her death. As one scholar notes, it is often the mockers, not the one being mocked, who are truly contemptible.
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And they laughed him to scorn (κα κατεγελων). "They jeered at him" (Weymouth). Note imperfect tense. They kept it up. And note als…
19th Century
Anglican
They laughed him to scorn.—Here again the verb implies continuous action.
Baptist
And they laughed him to scorn.
Can you picture the scene? These people, who had been hired to weep and wail, had not much of the sp…
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On entering the house, Jesus asked why they were making such a commotion since the child was not dead but only asleep. On the surface this statemen…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they laughed him to scorn The servants of the house that had laid her out; and the neighbours and relations that…
Presbyterian
We may suppose Jairus hesitating whether he should ask Christ to go on or not, when told that his daughter was dead. But do we not have as much occ…
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