Luke 8:53

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

Luke 8:53 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 8:53

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 the utmost derision:

knowing that she was dead:
some of them having been employed in laying her out, and all of them having seen her, and were satisfied, and thoroughly assured, that she was actually dead, as ever any person was, as she doubtless was; but they were ignorant in what sense Christ meant she was not dead, but asleep; (See Gill on Matthew 9:24). (See Gill on Mark 5:39).

Luke 8:53 In-Context

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.

55 And hyr sprete came agayne and she roose strayght waye. And he commaunded to geve her meate.