 they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue he saw a tumult and people weeping and wailing loudly and when he had entered he said to them why do you make a tumult and weep the child is not dead but sleeping and they laughed at him by the way these are professional mourners that would often come for this purpose when somebody died and so for them to go from mourning maybe even fake crying to laughing it's not not too big of a stretch there they're just kind of doing a job