Verse 52

Everyone was weeping and mourning for her, but He said, "Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

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  • Luke 23:27 : 27 A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him.
  • John 11:4 : 4 When Jesus heard it, he said, 'This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 After he said this, he told them, 'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up.' 12 The disciples said to him, 'Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.' 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought he was referring to natural sleep.
  • Gen 23:2 : 2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
  • Gen 27:34-35 : 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, 'Bless me—me too, my father!'. 35 But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 The appearance of the LORD's glory was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the sight of the Israelites.
  • Jer 9:17-21 : 17 'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.' 18 'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”' 19 'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.' 20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.' 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader, and Jesus saw a commotion with people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 He went inside and said to them, 'Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.'