“And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.”
Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. Stop wailing, Jesus said. She is not dead but asleep — the mourning is genuine and the professional mourners have already arrived. Stop wailing: Jesus' command to the mourners communicates certainty about the child's condition. She is not dead but asleep: the sleep-language communicates that what is death from the human perspective is temporary from Jesus' perspective — a sleep from which he will wake her.
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