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Luke 8:53

Luke 8:53
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he put them all out,.... Of the room, where the maiden lay, all the mourners and pipers; all excepting the parents of the child, and his three disciples, This clause is left out in the Vulgate…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 8:40-56

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

laughed him to scorn Literally, "were utterly deriding Him" -To laugh to scorn" is used by Shakespeare, e.g.

"Our castle's strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn."

Macbeth, v. 5.

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