Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 11:43
He cried with a loud voice — That all who were present might hear. Lazarus, come forth — Jesus called him out of the tomb as easily as if he had been not only alive, but awake also.
He cried with a loud voice — That all who were present might hear. Lazarus, come forth — Jesus called him out of the tomb as easily as if he had been not only alive, but awake also.
Verse 43. _HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE_] In John 5:25, our Lord had said, _that the time was coming, in which the dead should hear the_ _voice of the Son of God, and live_. He now fulfils that predicti...
A LOUD VOICE - Greek, “A great voice.” Syriac: “A high voice.” This was distinctly asserting his power. He uttered a distinct, audible voice, that there might be no suspicion of charm or incantation....
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...
HE CRIED IN ALOUD VOICE. A suggestion of the "voice like the sound of many waters" (Revelation 1:15) at which all who are in their graves shall come forth (1 Thessalonians 4:16). It was the voice of...
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)...
COME FORTH. literally hither, out....
_cried_ The Greek word (rare in N.T. except in this Gospel) is nowhere else used of Christ. It is elsewhere used of the shout of a multitude; John 12:13; John 18:40; John 19:6, (12), 15. Comp....
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...
THE SIGN...
ἘΚΡΑΎΓΑΣΕΝ. The word (rare in N.T. except in this Gospel) is nowhere else used of Christ. It is elsewhere used of the shout of a multitude; John 12:13; John 18:40; John 19:6;...
Ver 41. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42. And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may be...
_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...
ΦΩΝΉ (G5456) _dat. sing._ звук, голос. _Instr. dat._, "громким голосом" ΈΚΡΑΎΓΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΑΥΓΆΖΩ (G2905) кричать. ΔΕΫ́ΡΟ (G1204), _adv._ места, здесь используется в _знач._ императив...
AND WHEN HE THUS HAD SPOKEN, HE CRIED, &C.— The dead man heard the voice of the Son of God, and came forth immediately; for he did not revive slowly and by degrees, as the dead child did, which was ra...
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...
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. AND WHEN HE THUS HAD SPOKEN, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LAZARUS, COME FORTH. On one other occasion only did He this-on...
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...
HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE. — Comp. John 5:25; John 5:28, and Notes there. These verses lead to the opinion that it was at the moment of the cry, and not before, as some have thought, that life return...
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,...
Having thus turned the faith of the bystanders to the Father, φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκραύγασε, “He cried with a great voice,” “that all might hear its authoritativeness” (Euthymius). “Talis vox opposita est omn...
_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...
_He cried with a loud voice: Lazarus come forth. His will had been sufficient. He calls upon the dead man, says St. John Chrysostom, as if he had been living; and it is no sooner said than done. (With...
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...
“ _And after having spoken thus, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth._ 44. _And the dead man came forth, his feet and hands bound with bandages; and his face was wrapped in a napkin. 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...
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 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...
_THE RAISING OF LAZARUS_ ‘Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth.’ John 11:43 I. THE SYMPATHY OF JESUS. (_a_) _ He was vehemently moved_ against the havoc wrought by sin in the worl...
43._He cried with a loud voice. _By not touching with the hand, but only _crying with the voice_, his Divine power is more fully demonstrated. At the same time, he holds out to our view the secret and...
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 WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN,.... To God his Father, in the presence and hearing of the people; HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE; not on account of the dead, but for the sake of those around him, that all m...
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. Ver. 43. _Lazarus, come forth_] If this voice of Christ had been directed to all the dead, they had presently risen; as s...
_Then they took away the stone_ As Jesus had directed; _from the place where the dead was laid_ From the mouth of the tomb. _And Jesus lifted up his eyes_, &c. To show them who stood by, and viewed hi...
The miracle and its effect:...
AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LAZARUS, COME FORTH....
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...
When he had groaned in his spirit, and audibly given thanks to his Father for hearing of him, and testified that he did this, not because he ever had any doubt of his Father's willing what he willed,...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I and straightway the infirm man received strength. And to the dead He said, "Lazarus, go forth; "[8] Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Pilate says:...
John 11:43 Now G2532 said G2036 (G5631) things G5023 cried G2905 (G5656) loud G3173 voice G5456 Lazarus...
‘And when he had thus spoken he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth”. He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus s...
John 11:43-44. AND WHEN HE THUS HAD SPOKEN, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LAZARUS, COME FORTH; AND HE THAT WAS DEAD CAME FORTH, BOUND HAND AND FOOT WITH GRAVEBANDS: AND HIS FACE WAS BOUND ABOUT WITH A N...
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...
HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE (φωνη μεγαλη εκραυγασεν). First aorist active indicative of κραυγαζω, old and rare word from κραυγη (Matthew 25:6). See Matthew 12:19. Occurs again in John 18:40;...
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;...
LAZARUS, COME OUT! Lazarus _dead,_ had neither the ability to come nor to refuse to come. But at the shout of command, Lazarus is dead no morel...
_Jesus lifted up His eyes and said_ THE WORDS OF CHRIST AT THE GRAVE OF LAZARUS I. THOSE HE ADDRESSED TO HEAVEN (John 11:41). In these we have 1. His recognition of God as His Father. He was the So...
_Lazarus come forth._ A royal command befitting the majesty of God. (_St. Cyril._) THE SCENE Look at our Lord by this grave. How truly man, partaker of our common nature! The sight of the tomb awake...
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...
_And when He had thus spoken_, &c. First, to show this voice to have great and prevailing authority, by which He was raising up Lazarus from death, as God ruling nature and death. Whence Cyril says, H...
_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 Kings 17:21; 1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:33; Acts 3:12; Acts 3:6;...
Come forth [δ ε υ ρ ο ε ξ ω]. Literally, hither forth....
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...