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24 he said, “Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping.”[a] And they ridiculed him.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:24 Sleeping: sleep is a biblical metaphor for death (see Ps 87:6 LXX; Dn 12:2; 1 Thes 5:10). Jesus’ statement is not a denial of the child’s real death, but an assurance that she will be roused from her sleep of death.

24 he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead(A) but asleep.”(B) But they laughed at him.

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