³⁷ And he did not allow anyone to follow along with him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. ³⁸ And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly. ³⁹ And when he^[a] entered, he said to them, “Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping.”