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John 11:2
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Verse John 11:2. _IT WAS_ THAT _MARY WHICH ANOINTED_] There is much disagreement between learned men relative to the two anointings of our Lord, and the persons who performed these acts. The various...
IT WAS THAT MARY ... - See the Matthew 26:6 note; Luke 7:36 notes....
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...
IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD WITH OINTMENT. There were. number of Marys distinguished in gospel history, Mary the mother of the Lord, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Mark, Mary the wif...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
There was a man Lazarus, who came from Bethany from the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived, and he was ill. It was Mary who had anointed the Lord with perfumed ointment, and who had wiped...
IT WAS, &c. This is an explanatory statement, anticipating what is related in John 12:3. THE LORD. Greek. Kurios. App-98....
_It was that Mary which anointed_ This of course does not necessarily imply that the anointing had already taken place, as those who identify Mary with the -sinner" of Luke 7:37 would insist: it merel...
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...
ἮΝ ΔῈ Μ. Ἡ�. NOW MARY WAS SHE _that anointed;_ or, NOW IT WAS (THE) MARY _that anointed_. This of course does not necessarily imply that the anointing had already taken place, as those who identify Ma...
THE PRELUDE TO THE SIGN...
Ver 1. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2. (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whos...
_THE DEATH OF LAZARUS -- JOHN 11:1-16:_ Jesus had three special friends in Bethany. They were Mary, Martha and Lazarus. This Mary was the same person who poured perfume on the Lord's head and wiped hi...
ΆΛΕΊΨΑΣΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΛΕΊΠΩ (G218) мазать (_см._ John 12:1-8) ΜΎΡΩ _dat. от_ ΜΎΡΟΝ (G3464) масло, благовоние, ΈΚΜΆΞΑΣΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΚΜΆΣΣΩ (G1591) вытирать. Вероятно, предвосхищающи...
IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED, &C.— Because the evangelist characterizes Mary, the sister of Lazarus, by her action of _anointing the Lord's feet,_ Grotius imagines, that the three anointings mentio...
A MAN DIES FOR A PURPOSE _Text 11:1-6_ 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:1-10 Below is an Analysis of the first ten verses of John 11. 1. Lazarus and his sisters, verses 1, 2. Before taking up the details of the passage which is...
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) (IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD WITH OINTMENT, AND WIPED HIS FE...
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...
11:2 Mary (d-4) Or 'But [the] Mary was she who,' &c....
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...
St. John assumes that the fact of the anointing is already known in a general way from the synoptists (see Matthew 26:6; Mark 14:3, and cp. Luke 7:36), but since their narratives are somewhat obscure...
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...
IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD. — Comp. Notes on Matthew 26:6 _et seq.,_ and Mark 14:3 _et seq._ John himself relates the anointing in John 12:3 _et seq._ Here he simply mentions it as disti...
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,...
In order further to identify Lazarus it is added: “Now it was (that) Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill”. This act of Mary's has n...
JESUS FACES DEATH FOR HIS FRIEND John 11:1-16 Sickness enters homes even where God is honored and loved. It is permitted because it affords an opportunity and platform for His delivering help. We sho...
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...
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...
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...
“ _Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus, of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha, her sister._ 2. _Mary was she who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; and it was he...
I. THE PREPARATION: JOHN 11:1-16. John first describes the general situation, John 11:1-2; then, the conduct of Jesus towards the two sisters, John 11:3-6; finally, His conversations with the disciple...
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (2) (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brot...
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...
2._It was that Mary who anointed the Lord. _It is a similar display of ignorance, to imagine that this _Mary_, _the sister of Lazarus_, was that woman of wicked and infamous life, who is mentioned by...
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...
IT WAS [THAT] MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD WITH OINTMENT,.... Not the woman in Luke 7:37, as some have thought, whose name is not mentioned, and which history is not related by John at all: but Mary i...
(It was _that_ Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Ver. 2. _It was that Mary which anointed_] This makes her name "as an oin...
_Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus_ While Jesus was on the other side of Jordan, whither he had retired when he left Jerusalem, a particular friend of his, called Lazarus, fell sick of a very...
MARY; MATTHEW 26:7; MARK 14:3....
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...
1-6 It is no new thing for those whom Christ loves, to be sick; bodily distempers correct the corruption, and try the graces of God's people. He came not to preserve his people from these afflictions...
We read of a woman, LUKE 7:37,38, that came behind our Saviour while he was at dinner, in the house of Simon the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment, stood at his feet behind him weeping, w...
John 11:2 G1161 was G2258 (G5713) Mary G3137 who G3588 anointed G218 (G5660) Lord G2962 oil...
‘Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha, and it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother...
John 11:2. (NOW IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD WITH OINTMENT, AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR, WHOSE BROTHER LAZARUS WAS SICK.) These words seem intended to bring into view the closeness of...
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...
AND IT WAS THAT MARY WHICH ANOINTED THE LORD WITH OINTMENT, AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR (ην δε Μαριαμ η αλειψασα τον κυριον μυρω κα εκμαξασα τους ποδας αυτου ταις θριξιν αυτης). This descriptio...
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;...
(THIS MARY.) John clearly identifies which Mary he means. Remember he writes as a historian. He tells about the anointing in John 12:1-8. [Five Marys stand out in the New Testament: those from Nazaret...
_Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany_ LAZARUS The English reader would at first sight hardly recognize the New Testament “Lazarus” as identical with the Old Testament “Eleazar. ” The...
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...
_It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair_ (Luke 7:37). I have shown that the Mary who twice, or as some say, three times, anointed Christ, was without doubt t...
_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...
John 12:3; Luke 7:37; Luke 7:38; Mark 14:3; Matthew 26:6;...
Anointed [α λ ε ι ψ α σ α]. Three words for anointing are found in the New Testament : ajleifw, criw, and its compounds, and murizw. The last is used but once, Mark 14:8, of anointing the Lord's body...
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...
It was that Mary who afterward anointed, &c. She was more known than her elder sister Martha, and as such is named before her....