Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
Luke 8:53 in other translations
| BSB | And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead. |
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| WEB | They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. |
| ASV | And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. |
| YLT | and they were deriding him, knowing that she did die; |
| DARBY | And they derided him, knowing that she had died. |
| BBE | And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead. |
| Webster | And they derided him, knowing that she was dead. |
What does Luke 8:53 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 8:41-56
Let us not complain of a crowd, and a throng, and a hurry, as long as we are in the way of our duty, and doing good; but otherwise every wise man will keep himself out of it as much as he can. And many a poor soul is healed, and helped, and saved by Christ, that is hidden in a crowd, and nobody notices it. This woman came trembling, yet her faith saved her. There may be trembling, where yet there is saving faith…
Luke 8:53 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 8:53
- Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Psalms 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- John 11:39
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
- John 19:33-35
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
- Mark 15:44-45
And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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Context
- Luke 8:52
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
- Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
- Luke 8:54
And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.
Luke 8:53 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y hacían burla de él, sabiendo que estaba muerta. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et ils se riaient de lui, sachant qu’elle était morte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie verlachten ihn, da sie wußten, daß sie gestorben war. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et deridebant eum, scientes quod mortua esset. |