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John 11:19
and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.
and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.
Verse John 11:19. _MANY OF THE JEWS CAME_] Bethany being so nigh to Jerusalem, many of the relatives and friends of the family came, according to the Jewish custom, to mourn with the afflicted sister...
MANY OF THE JEWS - Probably their distant relatives or their friends. TO COMFORT - These visits of consolation were commonly extended to seven clays (Grotius; Lightfoot)....
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Sickness of Lazarus Announced. (John 11:1 .)_ 2. The Delayed Departure and the Death of Lazarus. (John 11:5 .) 3. The Arrival at Bethany. (John 11:17 .) 4. Weeping with Them Tha...
JOHN 11. THE RAISING OF LAZARAS. John 11:1. The Miracle. The withdrawal to Peræ a is brought to a sudden end by the illness of Jesus-' friend Lazarus. Bethany, to distinguish it from the Bethany beyon...
AND MANY OF THE JEWS CAME TO MARTHA AND MARY. By "Jews" John distinguishes the inhabitants of Judea and usually means those of influence or official character. They came to "comfort." Pharisaism arran...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
So, when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, less than two miles away. Many of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to comfort the...
OF. out of, from among. Greek _ek._ App-104. CAME. had come. TO. Greek. _pros,_ as in John 11:3 COMFORT. Greek. _paramutheomai;_ to speak tenderly, consolingly. Occurs only here; John 11:31;...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary_ Better, _many_ FROM AMONG _the Jews_ HAD COME, &c. The received text with some good authorities has -had come to Martha and Mary and their friends," but this...
THE PRELUDE TO THE SIGN...
ΠΟΛΛΟῚ ΔΈ for καὶ πολλοί (A), and ΤῊΝ for τὰς περί (Acts 3); both on overwhelming evidence. 19. ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν Ἰ. FROM AMONG _the Jews_. ‘The Jews,’ as usual, are the hostile party: among the numerous acqua...
Ver 17. Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. 18. Now Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off. 19. And many of the Jews came to Martha and M...
_JESUS AT LAZARUS' TOMB -- JOHN 11:17-34:_ When Jesus reached Bethany He found out that Lazarus had been in the grave 4 days already. His death had brought many people from Jerusalem to comfort Martha...
ΈΛΗΛΎΘΕΙΣΑΝ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 11:17. Plperf. выражает предшествующее действие, акцентируя результат. "Они пришли и были там" ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΉΣΩΝΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΜΥ...
NOW BETHANY WAS NIGH UNTO JERUSALEM,— The evangelist mentions the vicinity of Bethany to Jerusalem, and speaks of the company of friends that were with the two sisters, to shew that, by the direction...
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE _Text 11:17-27_ 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs o...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:11-27 The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:- In the previous lesson we have seen how the Lord Jesus received a touch...
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. AND MANY OF THE JEWS CAME, [ eleelutheisan (G2064) rather, 'had come'] to Martha and Mary, to comfort them co...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
CHRIST THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE 1-44. The raising of Lazarus. The last and greatest of the seven 'signs' recorded in this Gospel is related with such photographic minuteness of detail, that it is...
Visits of condolence were paid with great ceremony for seven days after a death....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 LAZARUS DIES 11:1-16 V1-2 A man called Lazarus was ill. He lived in Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. (M...
AND MANY OF THE JEWS CAME TO MARTHA AND MARY. — Better, _and many of the Jews had come... — _They had come before our Lord’s arrival. The word “Jews” is to be understood in St. John’s general sense (c...
CHAPTER 23 JESUS THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE. “Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,...
_The raising of Lazarus_....
JESUS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE John 11:17-27 His step may linger, but Jesus comes at length. While He seems to tarry, He knows each sigh, pang, and tear that escapes from the sufferer and His fr...
Here we have the account of the last sign wrought by Jesus as recorded by John, namely, the raising of Lazarus. Very beautiful in this connection is the depiction of the sorrow of the sisters, and our...
(4) And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. (4) God, who is the maker of nature, does not condemn natural emotions, but shows that they ought to be gui...
CHAPTER 9 RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS John 11:1-44. “ _And a certain one was sick_: _Lazarus_, _of Bethany_, _the village of Mary and Martha her sister_.” John, who accompanied Jesus, very discreetly omi...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 17-27. 1. The opinion of Godet is probably correct, that the death of Lazarus occurred on the day when the messenger came to Jesus from the sisters, afte...
FIRST SECTION: 11:1-57. THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS. No scene in this gospel is presented in so detailed and dramatic a manner. There is none from which appears more distinctly the character of Jesus...
“ _Jesus on his arrival found that he had been in the tomb four days already._ 18. _Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, at the distance of about fifteen furlongs;_ 19 _and many of the Jews had come to...
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. (18) Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off. (19) And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary,...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
19._To comfort them concerning their brother. _This was, no doubt, the object which they had in view, but God had another object to accomplish, as we have stated. It is evident from what is here menti...
We come now to the testimony which the Father renders to Jesus in answer to His rejection. In this chapter the power of resurrection and of life in His own Person are presented to faith. [40] But here...
AND MANY OF THE JEWS CAME TO MARTHA AND MARY,.... Or "to those that were about Martha and Mary"; in order to have access to them, they came to them, and to the rest of the family; though the phrase ma...
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Ver. 19. _To comfort them_] A pious office, and yet never thought of by the superstitious Papists, amidst all t...
_When Jesus came, he found_ When Jesus and his disciples were come nigh to Bethany, they were told by some of the inhabitants, whom, it seems, they met accidentally, that Lazarus had been buried four...
THE DEATH OF LAZARUS (vs.1-27) The raising of Lazarus in this chapter is a striking witness to the fact that the plotting of the Jews to kill the Lord Jesus was vanity; for He Himself is superior to...
17-32 Here was a house where the fear of God was, and on which his blessing rested; yet it was made a house of mourning. Grace will keep sorrow from the heart, but not from the house. When God, by hi...
Not to pray with them for the soul of their brother departed. That departed souls are in a capacity to be advantaged by the prayers of their friends, or any such thing, are corruptions of latter times...
John 11:19 And G2532 many G4183 of G1537 Jews G2453 joined G2064 (G5715) around G4012 G4314 Martha...
‘Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off (fifteen stadia), and many of the Judaisers had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.' Because Bethany was so close to Jerus...
The manifestation of Jesus by Himself is about to terminate so far at least as the world is concerned, and it does so in His revealing Himself as the Resurrection and the Life, the Conqueror of death...
John 11:19. AND MANY OF THE JEWS HAD COME TO MARTHA AND MARY, TO COMFORT THEM CONCERNING THEIR BROTHER. There is no ground whatever for understanding ‘the Jews' in any other sense than that which the...
HAD COME (εληλυθεισαν). Past perfect of ερχομα. These Jews were probably not hostile to Jesus. There were seven days of solemn mourning (1 Samuel 31:13). The presence of so many indicates the promi...
John 11 In selecting this word we are struck with the frequency of its occurrence in this chapter. There is: I. The "If" of wisdom. Jesus answered "If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not." The...
John 11:1. _Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha._ To many people, it may have seemed an event of no particular importance that «a certain man...
John 11:1. _Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town or Mary and her sister Martha._ In God's book, towns are most remarkable for saints that dwell in them. «The town of Mary a...
CONTENTS: Raising of Lazarus. Enmity of the Pharisees against Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Pharisees, Thomas, Caiaphas. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ is the resurrection an...
John 11:2. _It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment._ The allusion to this anointing is obscure. It could not be to the similar occurrence in Luke 7., for that was a woman of the city;...
AND MANY JEWS HAD COME. Since John uses "Jews" to mean Jewish authorities, it shows us that the family of Lazarus ranked high. These came to sit and talk with the family. [Death was "mourned" as long...
_When Jesus came_ CHRIST’S HELP IS SURE, IF DELAYED He usually reserves His hand for a dead lift. When our faith begins to flag, and hang the wing when our strength is gone, and we have given up al...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 11:1 The raising of Lazarus is the ultimate messianic “sign” in this Gospel (see note on 2:11). This spectacular miracle (recorded only by John) anticipates Jesus’ own resurrection....
1-57 CHAPTER 11 VER. 1. _Lazarus_, a man honourable and rich, and therefore another person than the Lazarus who lay full of sores at the doors of the rich glutton (Luke 16) _Bethany_, _the town of M...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ THE RAISING OF LAZARUS John 11:1. The various theories as to the reason why this great miracle is not recorded by the other Evangelists need not be fully discussed in...
EXPOSITION JOHN 11:1 7. _Christ the Antagonist of death—a victory of love and power_._ _The narrative of this chapter is a further advance in the proof that the unbelief of the Jews was aggravated b...
The gospel according to John, chapter 11. Now we remember that John is carefully picking out certain incidents in the life of Jesus by which he might prove that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of the l...
1 Chronicles 7:21; 1 Chronicles 7:22; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:11;...
Many of the Jews came. Rev., rightly, had come. The tense is the pluperfect. Lazarus ' friendship with Jesus had not caused him to be regarded as an apostate, at whose burial every indignity would hav...
SICKNESS, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION John 11:3 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The resurrection of Christ is the usual message of Easter. However, we must remember that indissolubly linked with the resurrection of...
THE RAISING OF LAZARUS John 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Some ideas concerning the cause of sickness. (1) The ancients thought that sickness was the result of sin. The Book of Job goes into detail co...