![]() 22 Even now I know that ( AA)whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus *said to her, “Your brother will rise from the dead.” 24 Martha *said to Him, “ ( AB)I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “ ( AC)I am the resurrection and the life the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me ( AD)will never die. 21 Martha then said to Jesus, “ ( Y)Lord, ( Z)if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 20 So then ( W)Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but ( X)Mary stayed in the house. 18 Now ( S)Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away 19 and many of ( T)the Jews had come to ( U)Martha and Mary, ( V)to console them about their brother. 14 So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus died, 15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe but let’s go to him.” 16 ( P)Therefore Thomas, who was called ( Q)Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, so that we may die with Him!”ġ7 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb ( R)four days. 10 But if anyone walks during the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 This He said, and after this He *said to them, “Our ( M)friend Lazarus ( N)has fallen asleep but I am going so that I may awaken him from sleep.” 12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will come out of it.” 13 Now ( O)Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep. 7 Then after this He *said to the disciples, “ ( I)Let’s go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples *said to Him, “ ( J)Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking ( K)to stone You, and yet You are going there again?” 9 Jesus replied, “ ( L)Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 3 So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “ ( E)Lord, behold, ( F)he whom You love is sick.” 4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not meant for death, but is for ( G)the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” 5 (Now Jesus loved ( H)Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.) 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. 2 And it was the Mary who ( C)anointed ( D)the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. It is salvation for the whole man and for every man and the sorrowing heart of humanity has never seen more clearly the divinity of the Son of Man than when it has seen His glory shining through His human tears.11 Now a certain man was sick: Lazarus of ( A)Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister ( B)Martha. A "God in tears" has provoked the smile of the stoic and the scorn of the unbeliever but Christianity is not a gospel of self-sufficiency, and its message is not merely to the human intellect. John's Gospel is "The Word was made flesh," and He is for us the Resurrection and the Life, because He has been manifested to us, not as an abstraction which the intellect only could receive, but as a person, living a human life, and knowing its sorrows, whom the heart can grasp and love. Men have wondered to find in the Gospel which opens with the express declaration of the divinity of our Lord, and at a moment when that divinity was about to receive its fullest manifestation, these words, which point them still to human weakness. ![]() He is conscious of the power which He is about to exercise, and that the first result will be the glory of God ( John 11:4) but He is conscious also of the suffering hearts near Him, and the sympathy with human sorrow is no less part of His nature than the union with divine strength. ![]() They are on the way to the sepulchre, near to which they have now arrived. The present word means not the cry of lamentation nor the wail of excessive grief, but the calm shedding of tears. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) Jesus wept.-The word is different from that which is used to express weeping in John 11:33 but this latter is used of our Lord in Luke 19:41. ![]()
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