Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 11

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John 11 . 1 , Christ raises Lazarus , four days buried; John 11 . 45 , Many Jews believe; John 11 . 47 , The high priests and Pharisees gather a council against Christ; John 11 . 49 , Caiaphas prophesies; John 11 . 54 , Jesus hides himself; John 11 . 55 , At the passover they enquire after him , and lay wait for him.

John 11:1

At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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The raising of Lazarus from the dead , being a work of Christ beyond measure great , the most stupendous of all he had hitherto performed , and beyond all others calculated to evince his Divine majesty , was therefore purposely recorded by the Evangelist John; while it was omitted by the other Evangelists , probably , as Grotius supposes , because they wrote their histories during the life of Lazarus , and they did not mention him for fear of exciting the malice of the Jews against him; as we find from

  • John 12:10 that they sought to put him to death , that our Lord might not have such a monument of his power and goodness remaining in the land

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John 11:2

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

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John 11:3

So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

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John 11:4

When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

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John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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John 11:6

So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

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John 11:7

and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

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John 11:8

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

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John 11:9

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

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John 11:10

But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

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John 11:11

After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

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John 11:13

They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

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John 11:14

So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

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John 11:15

and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

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John 11:16

Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

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John 11:17

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.

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John 11:18

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,

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John 11:19

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.

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John 11:20

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home.

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John 11:21

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

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John 11:22

But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”

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John 11:23

“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

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John 11:24

Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

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John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

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John 11:26

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

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John 11:27

“Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

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John 11:28

After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

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John 11:29

And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

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John 11:30

Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

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John 11:31

When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

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John 11:32

When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

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John 11:33

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

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John 11:34

“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

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John 11:35

Jesus wept.

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John 11:36

Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

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John 11:37

But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

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John 11:38

Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

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John 11:39

“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

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John 11:40

Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

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John 11:41

So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

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John 11:42

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

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John 11:43

After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

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John 11:44

The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

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"Swathed about with rollers" or bandages , ךויסיביע [Strong's G2750] , long strips of linen , a few inches in breadth , brought round the ףיםהשם [Strong's G4616] , or sheet of linen in which the corpse was involved , and by which the בסשלבפב , or spices , were kept in contact with the flesh. In reply to sceptical objections , it is sufficient to observe , that he who could raise Lazarus from the dead , could , with a much less exertion of power , have so loosened or removed the bandages of his feet and legs as to have rendered it practicable for him to come forth. Tittman well observes , that Lazarus was restored not only to life but also to health , as appears from the alacrity of his motion; and this would constitute a new miracle

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John 11:45

Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.

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John 11:46

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

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John 11:47

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

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John 11:48

If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

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John 11:49

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

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John 11:50

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

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John 11:51

Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

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John 11:52

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

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John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

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John 11:54

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

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Ephraim appears to be the same city which is called Ephrain , . see note on

  • 2 Chronicles 13:19 and Ephron , . see note on
  • Joshua 15:9 which was situated eight miles north of Jerusalem , near Bethel , and apparently between that city and Jericho. Accordingly we find that a desert , or wilderness , extended from Jericho to Bethel
  • Joshua 16:1 called the wilderness of Bethaven
  • Joshua 18:12 in which Joshua and the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Ai. . Joshua 8 . 24
  • 2 Samuel 13:23
  • 2 Chronicles 13:19

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John 11:55

Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

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John 11:56

They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

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John 11:57

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web11 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions John 11:27 → Psalms 118:26
Echoes John 11:25-26 → Job 19:25-27, John 11:41-42 → 1 Kings 18:37, John 11:48 → Jeremiah 7:14
Trajectories
Abel (First Martyr), Elijah (Prophet of Fire and Restoration), Isaac (Child of Promise), Tree of Life (Eternal Life in Christ)
Chiasms
Shaped John 10:39–11:10, John 11:11–44, John 11:47–57
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