Luke 8:52

52 Every body weept and sorowed for her. And he sayde: Wepe not: for she is not deed but slepeth.

Luke 8:52 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 52 And all wept and bewailed her
Not only her relations and friends, and the servants of the house, but the mourning women, that were hired on this occasion, and employed for this purpose:

but he said, weep not;
neither in show, as the mourning women did, nor in reality, as the friends of the deceased:

she is not dead, but sleepeth;
(See Gill on Matthew 9:24). (See Gill on Mark 5:39).

Luke 8:52 In-Context

50 When Iesus hearde that He answered the father sayinge: Feare not beleve only and she shalbe made whole.

51 And when he came to ye housse he suffred no man to goo in with him save Peter Iames and Iohn and the father and the mother of the mayden.

52 Every body weept and sorowed for her. And he sayde: Wepe not: for she is not deed but slepeth.

53 And they lewgh him to scorne. For they knew that she was deed.

54 And he thrust the all out and caught her by the honde and cryed sayinge: Mayde aryse.