Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 11:40
Said I not — It appears by this, that Christ had said more to Martha than is before recorded.
Said I not — It appears by this, that Christ had said more to Martha than is before recorded.
Verse 40. _IF THOU WOULDEST BELIEVE_, c.] So it appears that it is _faith_ alone that interests the miraculous and saving power of God in behalf of men. Instead of δοξαν, _the glory_, one MS. reads δυ...
SAID I NOT UNTO THEE - This was implied in what he had said about the resurrection of her brother, John 11:23. There would be a manifestation of the glory of God in raising him up which she would be p...
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...
TAKE YE AWAY THE STONE. The large stone that closed the entrance and which several persons would be required to remove. The practical Martha at once interposes. The body had been four days in the tomb...
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...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
SEE. App-133. THE GLORY OF GOD, i.e. the manifestation of the same glory by which Christ was raised. Compare Romans 6:4....
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...
_Said I not_ Apparently a reference to John 11:25, and to the reply to the messenger, John 11:4: on both occasions more perhaps was said than is recorded. See notes on John 11:4....
THE SIGN...
ΕἾΠΌΝ ΣΟΙ. Apparently a reference to John 11:25-26, and to the reply to the messenger, John 11:4 : on both occasions more may have been said than is reported. See on John 11:4....
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...
ΟΎΚ (G3756), отр. в вопросе, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором условие рассматриваетс...
DISCOURSE: 1669 LAZARUS RAISED John 11:40. _Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?_ SUCH is the state of God’s people upon earth, that they can sca...
SAID I NOT UNTO THEE, &C.— Either Jesus had said more to Martha than is recorded, or possibly these words may be collected from the message which Jesus sent, John 11:4 and from what he said, John 11:2...
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 saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, SAID I NOT UNTO THEE, THAT, IF THOU WOULDEST BELIEVE, THOU SHOU...
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...
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...
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...
IF THOU WOULDEST BELIEVE, THOU SHOULDEST SEE THE GLORY OF GOD. — He takes her back to the promise which she had heard from the messengers (John 11:4), and which had led to her brightest hopes, and rem...
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,...
But Martha's incredulity is mildly rebuked, Οὐκ εἶπόν σοι … Θεοῦ; “Did I not say to you, that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” recalling rather what He had said (John 11:4) to the dis...
_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 says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou believest thou shalt see the glory of God?_ 41. _They took away the stone therefore. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank th...
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...
40._Did not I tell thee? _He reproves Martha’s distrust, in not forming a hope sufficiently vigorous from the promise which she had heard. It is evident from this passage, that something more was said...
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 SAITH UNTO HER, SAID I NOT UNTO THEE,.... Not in so many words, but what might be concluded from what he said; yea, the following express words might be delivered by Christ, in his conversation...
Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Ver. 40. _Said I not unto thee, &c._] A foul fault in her to be so incredulous; and en...
_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,...
SEE THE GLORY OF GOD; as displayed in the mighty work he is about to perform. Compare verse John 11:4....
The arrival at the grave:...
JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, SAID I NOT UNTO THEE, THAT, IF THOU WOULDEST BELIEVE, THOU SHOULDEST SEE THE GLORY OF GOD?...
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...
Christ now begins to open to Martha and Mary, and the rest, his resolution to raise Lazarus from the dead by and by Christ saith that to us in his word, which he saith by a just consequence, though he...
John 11:40 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) her G846 Did G2036 not G3756 say G2036 (G5627) you...
‘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 11:40. JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, SAID I NOT UNTO THEE, THAT, IF THOU BELIEVEDST, THOU SHOULDEST SEE the GLORY OF GOD? Martha would have prevented the removal of the stone; but this wish was but a sym...
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...
SAID I NOT UNTO THEE? (Ουκ ειπον σοι;). Jesus pointedly reminds Martha of his promise to raise Lazarus (verses John 11:25).THAT IF THOU BELIEVEDST (οτ εαν πιστευσηις). Indirect discourse with εαν...
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;...
TAKE THE STONE AWAY! It would take more than one person to move the heavy stone. Martha's words show how little she expected a resurrection....
_If thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God._ THE SOUL’S ORGAN OF SIGHT I. THE DUTY ENJOINED. Faith is 1. A transaction between God and the soul. 2. A voluntary process. 3. Is...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:6; John 1:14;...
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...