⁵³ and they were deriding him, knowing that she did die;

⁴ A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter `is' the perfect righteous one.

² If not -- mockeries `are' with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.

⁷ All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,

³ He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,

⁴⁵ and having known `it' from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

³⁹ Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

³³ and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs;

³⁴ but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;

³⁵ and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.