John 11:11. These things said he: and after that he saith unto them. Our friend Lazarus hath fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. No second message has been sent to Him; by His own Divine knowledge He speaks of the death of His friend.
Verse John 11:11. _LAZARUS SLEEPETH_] It was very common among the Jews to express _death_ by _sleep_; and the expression, _falling_ _asleep - sleeping with their fathers_, c., were in great use among...
LAZARUS SLEEPETH - Is dead. The word “sleep” is applied to death, * Because of the resemblance between them, as sleep is the “kinsman of death.” In this sense it is often used by pagan writers. *...
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...
OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH. It seems probable that an interval had passed after Christ's last words. Christ was wont to speak of death as. sleep. See Mark 5:39. In the order of things over which he p...
Jesus said these things, and then he went on to say: "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping; but I am going to waken him up." "Lord, the disciples said to him, "if he is sleeping he will recover." But Jesus...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
FRIEND. Greek. _philos,_ noun of _phileo, John 11:3._ SLEEPETH. has fallen asleep. Greek. _koimaomai._ App-171. GO. Greek. _poreuomai,_ to go with. set purpose. Compare John 14:2; John 14:3, and...
_and after that and after_ THIS. These words indicate a pause in the narrative. _Our friend Lazarus sleepeth_ Better, LAZARUS OUR FRIEND IS FALLEN ASLEEP, or, _is gone to rest_. Sleep as an image of d...
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...
ΜΕΤᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. Perhaps indicates a pause. see on John 3:22. Λ. Ὁ ΦΊΛΟΣ ἩΜ. ΚΕΚ. LAZARUS, OUR FRIEND, IS FALLEN ASLEEP. Equal in tender simplicity to the message (John 11:3). Sleep as an image of death i...
THE PRELUDE TO THE SIGN...
Ver 11. These things said he: and after that he says to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. 12. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 1...
_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...
ΚΕΚΟΊΜΗΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΟΙΜΆΩ (G116) спать, засыпать. _Perf._ подчеркивает настоящее состояние. Это слово использовалось как эвфемизм для обозначения смерти (Brown), ΈΞΥΠΝΊΣΩ _aor. conj. ac...
OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH;— Our Lord might choose the expression _Lazarus sleepeth,_ partly out of tenderness, as being least shocking, when he spoke of so dear a friend; and it may also be consider...
THE PURPOSE EXPLANED _Text 11:7-16_ 7 Then after this he saith _to_ the disciples, Let us _go_ into Judea again. 8 The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee;...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:11-27 The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:- In the previous lesson we have seen how the Lord Jesus received a touch...
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. THESE THINGS SAID HE: AND AFTER THAT HE SAITH, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS...
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...
SLEEPETH] because Lazarus was soon to be awakened as from sleep: cp. Mark 5:39....
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...
OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH. — Better, _Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep._ They had probably understood the words of John 11:4 to express that the illness was not mortal, and that Lazarus would rec...
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,...
Ταῦτα εἶπε … αὐτόν. “These things spake He, and after this,” how long after we do not know; but John 11:15, “let us go to him,” indicates that the two days here intervened. There is, however, difficul...
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...
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus (d) sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. (d) The Jews used a milder kind of speech and called death "slee...
_Lazarus... sleepeth. It is strange that the disciples could imagine that Christ spoke of an ordinary sleep, and that he would go two or three days' journey to awake him. Nothing but the fear and conc...
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...
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...
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...
“ _He spoke thus, and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, sleeps; but I go to awaken him._ 12. _Whereupon they said to him;Lord, if he sleeps, he will recover._ 13. _But Jesus had spoken...
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...
_HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP_ ‘After that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.’ John 11:11 The death of true Christians is ‘sleep,’ and not annihilation. I. IT IS A SOLEMN AND MIRACULO...
11._Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. _Having formerly asserted that the disease was not deadly, that his disciples may not be too much distressed at seeing what they did not expect, he now informs them al...
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...
THESE THINGS SAID HE,.... In answer to his disciples, and made a pause. AND AFTER THAT HE SAITH UNTO THEM, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH; meaning, that he was dead; in which sense the word is often use...
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Ver. 11. _Lazarus sleepeth_] The saints are said to die in Christ, t...
_These things said he_ To silence their objections, and prepare their minds for what he yet concealed; and after that, as he perfectly knew what had passed at Bethany, though so many miles distant fro...
THESE THINGS SAID HE; AND AFTER THAT HE SAITH UNTO THEM, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH; BUT I GO THAT I MAY AWAKE HIM OUT OF SLEEP....
The announcement of the death of Lazarus:...
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...
11-16 Since we are sure to rise again at the last, why should not the believing hope of that resurrection to eternal life, make it as easy for us to put off the body and die, as it is to put off our...
There is such an analogy between death and sleep, that there is nothing more ordinary than to express death by sleep in Scripture, Deuteronomy 31:16 2 Samuel 7:12 1 Kings 1:21...
John 11:11 things G5023 said G2036 (G5627) and G2532 after G3326 that G5124 He G846 said G3004 ...
‘These things he spoke, and after this he says to them, “Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep, but I am going so that I might awake him from sleep”.' ‘These things he spoke, and after this---' is poss...
IS FALLEN ASLEEP (κεκοιμητα). Perfect passive indicative of κοιμαω, old verb to put to sleep. Common as a metaphor for death like our cemetery.I GO (πορευομα). Futuristic use of the present tense...
John 11:11 There seems to me to be contained in these few words one of the most powerful charms in the world to lull the bitterness of death, and to make us anxious to become such as that we may humbl...
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;...
OUR FRIEND LAZARUS HAS FALLEN ASLEEP. Jesus called death "sleep" more than once, because it is only temporary. Compare Matthew 9:24 and note. SO THAT WE MAY DIE WITH HIM. The Jewish authorities were s...
_Our friend Lazarus sleepeth_ SWEET SLEEP I. We have A SWEET RELATIONSHIP DECLARED. 1. “Our friend.” Behold here wondrous condescension. Our Lord does not turn to His disciples and say “Your friend...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 11:11 FALLEN ASLEEP means “died” (see vv. John 11:12). The OT equivalent is “slept with his fathers” (e.g.,...
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...
_These things said He_, &c. He calls death _sleep_, because Lazarus was soon to be aroused and awakened from it. Hear S. Augustine: To the Lord, who called him from the sepulchre with as much ease as...
_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 Corinthians 15:18; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:14;...
Sleepeth [κ ε κ ο ι μ η τ α ι]. More correctly, as Rev., hath fallen asleep. See on Acts 7:60; 2 Peter 3:4. Awake him out of sleep [ε ξ υ π ν ι σ ω α υ τ ο ν]. Only here in the New Testament....
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...
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth — This he spoke, just when he died. Sleepeth — Such is the death of good men in the language of heaven. But the disciples did not yet understand this language. And the slow...
Observe here, 1. Our Saviour, coming near to Bethany, tells his disciples that Lazarus sleepeth; that is plainly, he was dead. This shews his omnisciency, and that he was truly God: for he had receive...