All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
- BSB Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”
- ESV And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”
- NKJV Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.”
- NASB Now they were all weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”
- NLT The house was filled with people weeping and wailing, but he said, “Stop the weeping! She isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
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- John 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
- Luke 23:27A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
- Jer 9:17–21Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.
- Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
- Mark 5:38–39He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
- Exod 24:17The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- Gen 23:2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Gen 27:34–35When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
- Matt 11:17and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
- John 11:11–13He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
- 2 Sam 18:33The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
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