Matthew 9:23

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When Jesus entered the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
  • Mark 5:35-40 : 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house saying,“Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?” 36 But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue leader,“Do not be afraid; just believe.” 37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!” 40 And they began making fun of him. But he forced them all outside, and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.
  • Luke 8:49-51 : 49 While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue leader’s house came and said,“Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.” 50 But when Jesus heard this, he told him,“Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” 51 Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.
  • Matt 9:18-19 : 18 Restoration and Healing As he was saying these things, a leader came, bowed low before him, and said,“My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.” 19 Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me to say to this people,“Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 18 I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water. 19 For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion,‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land! For our houses have been torn down!’” 20 I said,“So now, you wailing women, listen to the LORD’s message. Open your ears to the message from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and let every woman teach her neighbor this lament.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived they brought him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, crying and showing him the tunics and other clothing Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
  • Luke 7:32 : 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 5:38-40
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    38They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

    39When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”

    40And they began making fun of him. But he forced them all outside, and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

  • Matt 9:24-26
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    24he said,“Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep!” And they began making fun of him.

    25But when the crowd had been forced outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

    26And the news of this spread throughout that region.

  • Matt 9:18-19
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    18Restoration and Healing As he was saying these things, a leader came, bowed low before him, and said,“My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”

    19Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.

  • Luke 8:40-42
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    40Restoration and Healing Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him.

    41Then a man named Jairus, who was a leader of the synagogue, came up. Falling at Jesus’ feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house,

    42because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

  • Matt 9:22
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    22But when Jesus turned and saw her he said,“Have courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was healed from that hour.

  • Luke 8:49-54
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    73%

    49While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue leader’s house came and said,“Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.”

    50But when Jesus heard this, he told him,“Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”

    51Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.

    52Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!”

    53And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

    54But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said,“Child, get up.”

  • Mark 5:35-36
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    72%

    35While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house saying,“Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

    36But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue leader,“Do not be afraid; just believe.”

  • Mark 5:22-24
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    22Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

    23He asked him urgently,“My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

    24Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.

  • Matt 8:5-7
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    5Healing the Centurion’s Servant When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

    6“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible anguish.”

    7Jesus said to him,“I will come and heal him.”

  • Mark 9:14-15
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    14The Disciples’ Failure to Heal When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

    15When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran at once and greeted him.

  • Luke 18:40
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    40So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,

  • Matt 21:14-15
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    14The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.

    15But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,“Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant

  • Mark 2:1
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  • Luke 7:14
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    14Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said,“Young man, I say to you, get up!”

  • Luke 15:25
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    25“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

  • Mark 9:27
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    27But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.

  • Mark 9:25
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    25Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

  • Matt 9:8
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    8When the crowd saw this, they were afraid and honored God who had given such authority to men.

  • John 11:33
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    33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

  • Matt 15:30
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    30Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

  • Luke 18:36-37
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    36When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.

    37They told him,“Jesus the Nazarene is passing by.”

  • John 4:49
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    49“Sir,” the official said to him,“come down before my child dies.”

  • Luke 7:3
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    3When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

  • Matt 8:34
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    34Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

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  • Luke 19:37
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    37As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

  • Matt 8:15
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    15He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

  • Matt 17:14
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  • John 11:31
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    31Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

  • Mark 1:33
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    33The whole town gathered by the door.