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39 [a](A)So he went in and said to them, “Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

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  1. 5:39 Not dead but asleep: the New Testament often refers to death as sleep (Mt 27:52; Jn 11:11; 1 Cor 15:6; 1 Thes 4:13–15); see note on Mt 9:24.