Luke 8:52

Now they were all weeping and wailing over her. But He said, "Stop weeping! For she is not dead but asleep."

There was following Him also a vast throng of the people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting Him.

When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."

"'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not beat your breasts.'

They came to the home of the leader of the synagogue, and there He saw confusion, and people weeping and wailing without restraint.

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

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And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

They came to the home of the leader of the synagogue, and there He saw confusion, and people weeping and wailing without restraint.

When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."