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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…
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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