They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
- BSB And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead.
- ESV And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.
- NKJV And they ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead.
- NASB And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.
- NLT But the crowd laughed at him because they all knew she had died.
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- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Mark 15:44–45Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
- Ps 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
- John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
- Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
- John 19:33–35but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
- Job 17:2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
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