And some of then said, Could not this man, &c. Certainly He was able to do that, but would not, because He had determined to do something far greater, namely, to raise him up when dead and four days buried, which the Jews thought impossible, and therefore wondered that Christ had not hindered the death of Lazarus.
Verse 37. _COULD NOT THIS MAN, WHICH OPENED THE EYES_, c.] Through the maliciousness of their hearts, these Jews considered the tears of Jesus as a proof of his weakness. We may suppose them to have...
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...
BEHOLD HOW HE LOVED HIM! Some of the Jews were touched by his evidence of tender affection. Others, remembering the healing of the blind man right there at Jerusalem, asked if he could not have saved...
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY (John 11:1-5)...
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...
AND. But. THIS MAN (Greek. _houtos). this_ (One). Compare Matthew 8:27. BLIND. blind (man). See John 9:1. NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105....
_And some of them_ Better, BUT _some of them_, in contrast to those who speak in John 11:36, who are not unfriendly, while these sneer. The drift of this remark is -He weeps; but why did He not come i...
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...
ΤΙΝῈΣ ΔῈ ἘΞ ΑΥ̓. BUT _some of them_, in contrast to those who speak in John 11:36, who are not unfriendly, while these sneer. The drift of this remark is ‘He weeps; but why did He not come in time to...
THE SIGN...
Ver 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34. And said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord,...
_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...
ΈΔΎΝΑΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным. Здесь относится к способности Иисуса исцелять и восстанавливать, ΆΝΟΊΞΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΝΟΊΓΩ (G455) откривать. _Aor._ испо...
THEN SAID THE JEWS, BEHOLD, &C.— Our Lord's tears had also another use; they caused those who saw them to wonder the more at the death of Lazarus, and consequently to doubt of his divine power, who pr...
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...
And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? AND, [ de (G1161 ), RATHER, 'BUT'] SOME OF THEM SAID, COULD NOT T...
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...
COULD NOT THIS MAN] Probably a hostile criticism, imputing to Jesus lack of love or lack of power....
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...
AND SOME OF THEM SAID. — Better, _But some of them said_ — _i.e.,_ another party of the Jews, differing from those mentioned in the last verse. COULD NOT THIS MAN, WHICH OPENED THE EYES OF THE BLIND ....
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_....
But this again suggested to the more thoughtful and wary the question, Οὑκ … ἀποθάνῃ; The tears of Jesus, which manifest His love for Lazarus, puzzle them. For if He opened the eyes of a blind man, He...
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...
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...
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...
“ _Jesus wept._ 36. _The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him._ 37. _But some of them said, could not he who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that this man also should not have died?_...
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...
AND SOME OF THEM SAID,.... Who were averse to him, and bore him a secret grudge, and were willing to put the worst construction on every action of his: COULD NOT THIS MAN WHICH OPENED THE EYES OF THE...
And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? Ver. 37. _And some of them said_] Thus our Saviour is diversely int...
_Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him_ They seem to wonder he should have so strong an affection for one to whom he was not related, and with whom he had not had a long acquaintance, having spe...
The sorrow of Jesus:...
AND SOME OF THEM SAID, COULD NOT THIS MAN, WHICH OPENED THE EYES OF THE BLIND, HAVE CAUSED THAT EVEN THIS MAN SHOULD NOT HAVE DIED? While Mary had poured out the sorrow of her heart to the Lord, the J...
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...
Some only concluded Christ's love to the deceased from his affection showed at his grave; but others made a worse conclusion, in derogation to Christ's reputation, from the miracle he had wrought, 1 T...
John 11:37 And G1161 some G5100 of G1537 them G846 said G2036 (G5627) Could G1410 (G5711) not...
‘They say to him, “Come and see”. Jesus wept. The Judaisers therefore said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the one who was blind have caused...
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 11:36-37. THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID, BEHOLD HOW HE LOVED HIM! BUT SOME OF THEM SAID, GOULD NOT THIS MAN, WHICH OPENED THE EYES OF HIM THAT WAS BLIND, HAVE CAUSED THAT THIS MAN ALSO SHOULD NOT DIE?...
COULD NOT THIS MAN (ουκ εδυνατο ουτος). Imperfect middle of δυναμα. They do not say δυνατα (can, present middle indicative). But clearly the opening of the blind man's eyes (chapter 9) had made a l...
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;...
SEE HOW MUCH HE LOVED HTML Some of the Jews see evidence of his love in the tears. Others, as they remember his mighty works, ask why he did not save Lazarus from death....
_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...
John 9:6; Luke 23:35; Luke 23:39; Mark 15:32; Matthew 27:40;...
Of the blind [τ ο υ τ υ φ λ ο υ]. Referring to the restoration of the blind man in ch. 9. The A. V. is too indefinite. Rev., rightly, of him that was blind. Have caused, etc. This saying of the Jews...
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...
Could not this person have even caused, that this man should not have died? — Yet they never dreamed that he could raise him again! What a strange mixture of faith and unbelief....