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John 11:38
Jesus, therefore, again groaning in Himself, cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Jesus, therefore, again groaning in Himself, cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Verse 38. _IT WAS A CAVE_, c.] It is likely that several of the Jewish burying-places were made in the sides of rocks some were probably dug down like a well from the upper surface, and then hollowed...
IT WAS A CAVE - This was a common mode of burial. See the notes at Matthew 8:28. A STONE LAY UPON IT - Over the mouth of the cave. See Matthew 27:60....
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...
JESUS... COMETH TO THE GRAVE. Graves were sometimes cut perpendicularly in the rock, as we dig them in the earth, and sometimes were horizontally cut into the side of the hill. Sometimes natural eaves...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
Jesus said to them: "Where have you laid him?" "Lord, they said to him: "Come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said: "Look how he loved him!" Some of them said: "Could not this man who opened the eye...
TO. unto. Greek _eis,_ as John 11:31. CAVE. Natural or artificial. Compare Isaiah 22:16. UPON. against. Greek. _epi._ App-104....
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...
_groaning in himself_ See on John 11:33. This shews that - _in_His spirit" not - _at_His spirit" is the right translation there. Their sneering scepticism rouses His indignation afresh. _to the grave_...
ἘΜΒΡΙΜ. ἘΝ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ι. This shews that ‘_in_ His spirit,’ not ‘_at_ His spirit,’ is right in John 11:33, to which πάλιν refers. Their sneering scepticism rouses His indignation afresh. It is remarkable t...
THE SIGN...
Ver 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34. And said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord,...
_JESUS BRINGS LAZARUS BACK TO LIFE -- JOHN 11:35-44:_ Jesus was touched emotionally with Lazarus' death. He wept. The people observed how much Jesus loved Lazarus. The people also said, "He gives sigh...
ΠΆΛΙΝ (G3825) снова, во второй раз. ΈΜΒΡΙΜΏΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. part. от_ ΈΜΒΡΙΜΆΟΜΑΙ (G1690) фыркать как выражение гнева, _см._ John 11:33. ΜΝΗΜΕΊΟΝ (G3419) могила. Это ответ на приглашение в ст. 34....
THEN SAID THE JEWS, BEHOLD, &C.— Our Lord's tears had also another use; they caused those who saw them to wonder the more at the death of Lazarus, and consequently to doubt of his divine power, who pr...
HE THAT WAS DEAD CAME FORTH _Text 11:38-46_ 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone....
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:28-44 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:- The central design of John's Gospel is to present Christ to us as t...
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. JESUS THEREFORE, AGAIN GROANING IN HIMSELF - in the sense explained at . But whereas there the...
25 The striking phrase "and the Life" is the clue to the great truth here unfolded by our Lord. To His assertion that "Your brother will be rising" Martha assents, for she knew that all would rise "at...
11:38 moved (a-5) Or 'groaned.' Elsewhere only in Matthew 9:30 ; Mark 1:43 ; Mark 14:5 , translated, 'sharply charged,' 'spoke very angrily.' Here it was inward feeling (in spirit) produced by the de...
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...
A STONE LAY UPON IT] which implies that it was an underground vault, or, 'a stone lay against it' (RV), which implies that it was a cavern hewn in the side of a hill. The tomb now called that of Lazar...
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...
JESUS THEREFORE AGAIN GROANING IN HIMSELF. — See Note on John 11:33. Their evil thoughts, expressed in John 11:37, are the cause of this new emotion of anger. COMETH TO THE GRAVE. — Comp. John 11:31....
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,...
Ἰησοῦς οὖν πάλιν ἐμβριμώμενος. “Jesus, then, being again deeply moved.” “Quia non accedit Christus ad sepulcrum tanquam otiosus spectator, sed athleta qui se ad certamen instruit, non mirum est si ite...
_The raising of Lazarus_....
VICTORY OVER DEATH John 11:36-44 1. The Lord had been praying about this matter before He came to the grave: “ _Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me._ ”Notice that _past_ tense. Perhaps He ha...
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...
1. There seems to be no sufficient reason to suppose, as many commentators do, that Jesus had bidden Martha to call her sister secretly. She acted probably on her own impulse possibly because she fear...
“ _Jesus therefore, shuddering in himself again, comes to the sepulchre; it was a cave and a stone was placed before it._ 39. _Jesus says, Take away the stone. The sister of the dead man Martha, says...
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. (39) Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him...
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...
38._Jesus therefore again groaning within himself. _Christ does not approach the sepulcher as an idle spectator, but as a champion who prepares for a contest; and therefore we need not wonder that he...
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...
JESUS THEREFORE GROANING IN HIMSELF,.... Not only through grief, just coming up to the grave, where his dear friend lay, but through an holy anger and indignation at the malice and wickedness of the J...
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Ver. 38. _Groaning in himself_] To consider, belike, the woeful effects of sin that brought deat...
_It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it_ Or, as Dr. Campbell reads, _shut up with a stone._ The graves of the common people probably were digged like ours, but persons of distinction were, as with us,...
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...
33-46 Christ's tender sympathy with these afflicted friends, appeared by the troubles of his spirit. In all the afflictions of believers he is afflicted. His concern for them was shown by his kind in...
GROANING IN HIMSELF as before, 1 THESSALONIANS 11:33, so showing himself yet further to be truly man, and not without human affections. He cometh to the place where Lazarus's dead body was laid, which...
John 11:38 Then G3767 Jesus G2424 again G3825 groaning G1690 (G5740) in G1722 Himself G1438 came G2064 ...
‘Jesus therefore again, groaning in himself, comes to the tomb.' Jesus was still ‘deeply angry and troubled'. Note how it is emphasised a second time. This is a reminder that He was facing up to somet...
‘Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus says, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, says to him, “Lord, by this time he will smell dreadfully, for he has been de...
John 11:38. JESUS THEREFORE AGAIN MOVED WITH INDIGNATION IN HIMSELF COMETH TO THE TOMB. HOW IT WAS A CAVE, AND A STONE LAY AGAINST IT. The indignation was again excited either by the malicious comment...
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...
AGAIN GROANING IN HIMSELF (παλιν εμβριμωμενος εν εαυτω). Direct reference to the use of this same word (present middle participle here) in verse John 11:33, only with εν εαυτω (in himself) rather t...
John 11:38 I. The general truth which is symbolically taught through such a miracle as the raising of Lazarus, is the truth that man's natural state is a state of moral death; and that to Christ alone...
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...
Our Lord's greatest miracles were ever the reward of faith. John 11:27. _She saith unto him, Yea, Lord I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come unto the world._ By which...
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...
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;...
JESUS WENT TO THE TOMB. [Tomb: compare note on Matthew 27:60]...
_Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself cometh to the grave_ THE BURIAL OF LAZARUS “It was a cave,” such as that rocky neighbourhood abounds with, “and a stone lay upon it. ” Among some nations t...
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...
_Jesus therefore, again groaning in Himself_, &c. Note that Christ was here thrice greatly distressed, and wept. First, when He sees Mary and the Jews weeping (ver. 33). Secondly, when He saw the sepu...
_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...
Ezekiel 21:6; Ezekiel 9:4; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 49:29; Isaiah 22:16
Lay upon [ε π ε κ ε ι τ ο]. This would be the meaning if the tomb were a vertical pit; but if hollowed horizontally into the rock, it may mean lay against. The traditional tomb of Lazarus is of the fo...
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...
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...
It was a cave — So Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their wives, except Rachel, were buried in the cave of Machpelah, Genesis 49:29. These caves were commonly in rocks, which abounded in that country, e...
In these verses we find our Lord addressing himself to the miracle of raising Lazarus from the grave. First, he commands them to take away the stone. But could not that voice which raised the dead, re...