Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 11:1-33
THE PRELUDE TO THE SIGN
THE PRELUDE TO THE SIGN
CHAPTER XI. _Account of the sickness of Lazarus_, 1. _His sisters Martha and Mary send for Christ_, 2. _Our Lord's discourse with his disciples on this sickness and_ _consequent death_, 3-16. He...
A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK - The resurrection of Lazarus has been recorded only by John. Various reasons have been conjectured why the other evangelists did not mention so signal a miracle. The most proba...
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...
THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS (JOHN 11:1-44) 1. Now. certain man was sick, named Lazarus. The name of Lazarus is not mentioned by any of the sacred writers but John, but his family is named or referred...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
There was a man Lazarus, who came from Bethany from the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived, and he was ill. It was Mary who had anointed the Lord with perfumed ointment, and who had wiped...
WAS SICK. Pointing to great weakness and exhaustion, the result of active disease, rather than the disease itself. The verb is used thirty-six times, gene- rally translated in the Gospels "sick", in P...
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 1. _Now a certain man was sick_ Note once more the touching simplicity of the narrative. -Now" should perhaps be -but," though the Greek particle may mean either. Here it intr...
Ver 1. 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, whos...
_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...
ΑΣΘΕΝΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΣΘΕΝΈΩ (G770) быть слабым, больным. Part, используется в перифр. обороте....
NOW A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK,— About this time a friend of Christ, named Lazarus, was afflicted with a _dangerous sickness,_ ηνασθενων,— at _Bethany,_ a village about two miles from Jerusalem, but at a...
A MAN DIES FOR A PURPOSE _Text 11:1-6_ 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment,...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 11:1-10 Below is an Analysis of the first ten verses of John 11. 1. Lazarus and his sisters, verses 1, 2. Before taking up the details of the passage which is...
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was stated at the close of the former chapter that our Lord, eluding the fury of His Pharisaic adve...
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...
LAZARUS] i.e. Eleazar, 'God is my help,' a man of good social position, probably a son or near relative of Simon the Leper (Matthew 26:6); not to be identified with the beggar Lazarus of the parable....
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 A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK. — This is connected with the preceding narrative to introduce the reason for our Lord’s leaving His retirement to go again into the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. NAMED LAZARU...
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,...
Ἦν δέ τις ἀσθενῶν. “Now a certain man was ill;” δέ connects this narrative with the preceding, and introduces the cause of our Lord's leaving His retirement in Peraea. “Lazarus,” the Greek form of Ele...
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...
Now (1) a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the (a) town of Mary and her sister Martha. (1) Christ, in restoring the rotting body of his friend to life, shows an example both of hi...
At the end of the preceding chapter, we are told that Jesus went into the place where John the Baptist was first baptizing. This place, as may be gather from St. John, (chap. i. ver. 28. and 44.) was...
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...
“ _Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus, of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha, her sister._ 2. _Mary was she who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; and it was he...
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...
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...
CONTENTS Jesus raiseth Lazarus from the Dead. The Priests and Pharisees become more desperately enraged at Jesus. They gather a Council to deliberate on his Death....
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 DISCIPLINE OF SICKNESS_ ‘Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.’ John 11:1 Lazarus, ‘whom Jesus loved,’ was allowed to be sick, and in p...
1._And one named Lazarus was sick. _The Evangelist passes on to another narrative, which contains a miracle eminently worthy of being recorded. For not only did Christ give a remarkable proof of his D...
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 A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK,.... Very likely of a fever; Nonnus calls it a morbid fire, a hot and burning disease: [NAMED] LAZARUS OF BETHANY; for his name, which the Ethiopic version reads "Eleazar",...
Now a certain _man_ was sick, _named_ Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. Ver. 1. _Bethany, the town of Mary, &c._] Not the tower (_castellum_) of Mary and Martha, as some mo...
_Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus_ While Jesus was on the other side of Jordan, whither he had retired when he left Jerusalem, a particular friend of his, called Lazarus, fell sick of a very...
BETHANY; on the side of the mount of Olives, about two miles from Jerusalem. Matthew 21:17....
NOW A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK, NAMED LAZARUS, OF BETHANY, THE TOWN OF MARY AND HER SISTER MARTHA....
THE RAISING OF LAZARUS. 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...
1-6 It is no new thing for those whom Christ loves, to be sick; bodily distempers correct the corruption, and try the graces of God's people. He came not to preserve his people from these afflictions...
JOHN CHAPTER 11 1 THESSALONIANS 11:1 The sickness and death of Lazarus: Jesus raiseth him to life after he had been dead four days: many Jews believe. 1 THESSALONIANS 11:47 The Pharisees hold a counci...
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Pilate says to them who said that the demons were subject to Him: Why, then, were not your teachers also subject to him? They say to Pilate: We do not know. A...
John 11:1 Now G1161 certain G5100 was G2258 (G5713) sick G770 (G5723) Lazarus G2976 of G575 Bethany...
‘Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha, and it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother...
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 11:1. NOW A CERTAIN MAN WAS SICK, LAZARUS, OF BETHANY, FROM THE VILLAGE OF MARY AND HER SISTER MARTHA. The scene of the miracle to be related in this chapter is Bethany, a village (now small and...
WAS SICK (ην ασθενων). Periphrastic imperfect active of ασθενεω, old verb (from ασθενης, α privative, and σθενος, strength).LAZARUS (Λαζαρος). See on Luke 16:20 for the name of another man in the...
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;...
A MAN NAMED LAZARUS. The other Gospels mention Mary and Martha, but not their brother Lazarus. Bethany was on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives, about two miles east of Jerusalem....
_Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany_ LAZARUS The English reader would at first sight hardly recognize the New Testament “Lazarus” as identical with the Old Testament “Eleazar. ” The...
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...
_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 Kings 20:1; Acts 9:37; Genesis 48:1; John 11:11; John 11:3;...
Now [δ ε]. Marking the interruption to Jesus ' retirement (x. 40). Lazarus. See on Luke 16:20....
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...
One Lazarus — It is probable, Lazarus was younger than his sisters. Bethany is named, the town of Mary and Martha, and Lazarus is mentioned after them, John 11:5. Ecclesiastical history informs us, th...
This chapter relates unto us the miraculous power of Christ, in raising of dead Lazarus, which, as it was one of his last, so was it one of the greatest miracles which he wrought: and yet we find none...