“And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.”
But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was — the laughing at Jesus is the mourners' response to what seems to them an absurd denial of obvious reality. The laughter is not malicious but incredulous — it is the response of people certain about death confronted with a claim that contradicts their certainty. Jesus puts them all out: the mourners who have made their judgment must leave before the event that will overturn it. The intimate witness group — father, mother, three disciples — is all that remains when Jesus enters the room where the child lies.
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