Now Jesus was not yet come into the town
(ουπω δε εληλυθε ο Ιησους εις την κωμην). Explanatory parenthesis with past perfect as in verse John 11:19. Martha had her interview while he was still coming (verse John 11:20) and left him (went off, απηλθεν, verse John 11:28) to hurry to Mary with the news. Why Jesus tarried still where he had met Martha we do not know. Westcott says, "as though He would meet the sisters away from the crowd of mourners."
Verse 30. _JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE TOWN_] As the Jewish burying places were without their cities and villages, it appears that the place where our Saviour was, when Martha met him, was not far...
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...
CALLED MARY HER SISTER SECRETLY. The Lord had evidently directed her to do this, for she said, "The Master calleth for thee." At once, with. promptitude that shows her joy, Mary arose and hastened ou...
When Martha had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister. Without letting the rest of the people know, she said to her: "The Teacher has arrived and is calling for you." When she heard this...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
_into the town_ Or, _into the_ VILLAGE; see on John 11:1. By remaining outside He would be able to say what He wished to say to the sisters without fear of interruption. _was in that place_ was STILL...
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 PRELUDE TO THE SIGN...
ἮΝ ἜΤΙ. _Was still in the place_. By remaining outside He could converse with the sisters with less fear of interruption: but the Jews, by following her, interfere with the privacy. See Winer, p. 705....
Ver 28. And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for you. 29. And as soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came t...
_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...
ΈΛΗΛΎΘΕΙ _plperf. ind. act., см._ John 11:17. ΎΠΉΝΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΑΝΤΆΩ (G5221) встречать....
AS SOON AS SHE HEARD THAT,— Mary no sooner heard the joyful news of the arrival of Jesus, than she arose, and went to him, without speaking a word to the company of friends, who, because she was of a...
JESUS WEPT _Text 11:28-37_ 28 And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee. 29 And she, when she heard it, arose q...
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...
_NOW JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE TOWN, BUT WAS IN THAT PLACE WHERE MARTHA MET HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
NOW JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE TOWN. — Better, as before, _into the village_ (John 11:1). WHERE MARTHA MET HIM. — Comp. John 11:20....
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_....
THE SYMPATHY OF JESUS John 11:28-35 It is not to be wondered at that the sisters and their friends wept as they stood beside the grave; but why did Jesus weep? He knew what He had come to do. He had...
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...
“ _And having said this_, _she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, The Master is here and calls thee._ 29. _She, as soon as she heard this, rises directly and comes to him._ 30. _...
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...
And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, the Master is come, and calleth for thee. (29) As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came 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...
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...
NOW JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE TOWN,.... Of Bethany, but stayed without, being nearer to Lazarus's grave, which he intended to go to, in order to raise him to life, it being usual to bury the wit...
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. Ver. 30. _Was not yet come into the town_] To eat and refresh himself after his long journey; he would do his wor...
_When she had so said_ When she had testified her faith, as in the preceding verse; _she went and called Mary_ Jesus having inquired for her, as is implied in the next words, designing that she and he...
Mary's coming to the Lord:...
NOW JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE TOWN, BUT WAS IN THAT PLACE WHERE MARTHA MET HIM....
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...
Ver. 30-32. Coming, she falls down at his feet, which was a posture (as we have heard before) very usual in those countries, by which they testified both their civil respects to princes and great pers...
John 11:30 Now G1161 Jesus G2424 had G2064 yet G3768 come G2064 (G5715) into G1519 town G2968 but...
‘And she, when she heard it, quickly got up and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha met him. The Judaisers then, who were with her in the h...
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 11:30. NOW JESUS WAS NOT YET COME INTO THE VILLAGE, BUT WAS STILL IN THAT PLACE WHERE MARTHA MET HIM. Avoiding the presence of ‘the Jews,' so painful and incongruous at such a time. This verse is...
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;...
AND CALLED HER SISTER MARY PRIVATELY. So that she could speak with Jesus as her sister had done....
_The Master is come and calleth for thee_ THE MASTER I. THE PROPRIETY OF THIS TITLE AS APPLIED TO OUR LORD. 1. He has a peculiar fitness for the office. He is the Master, _i.e._, the Teacher. Put 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...
_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...
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...