Luke 8:52
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
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Gill's Exposition
And they laughed him to scorn,.... The servants, neighbours, and relations, the pipers, and mourning women: these, from weeping for the dead, fell to laughing at Christ, having him and his words in…
Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes; they were weary of him, and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water, and returned to the Galileans, they gladly received him, wished and…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
bewailed her The word means that they were beating their breasts for her (Nah 2:7). St Mark gives a graphic picture of the tumult, and loud cries, and wailings (alalai, the Egyptian wilweleh). Even…
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