John 11:20

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When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

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  • Luke 10:38-42 : 38 While they were traveling, He entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted by much serving. So she came to Him and asked, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.' 41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.' 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • John 11:30 : 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
  • Acts 10:25 : 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.
  • Acts 28:15 : 15 From there, the brothers and sisters, having heard about us, came as far as Appius Forum and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he gave thanks to God and was encouraged.
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 After that, we who are alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
  • Matt 25:1 : 1 Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  • Matt 25:6 : 6 At midnight, there was a cry: ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him!’

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  • John 11:28-35
    8 verses
    89%

    28 After she said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside, saying privately, 'The Teacher is here and is asking for you.'

    29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

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

    31 The Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, saw how Mary quickly got up and went out. They followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to weep there.

    32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.'

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

    34 'Where have you laid him?' he asked. 'Come and see, Lord,' they replied.

    35 Jesus wept.

  • John 11:21-25
    5 verses
    85%

    21 Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.'

    22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.

    23 Jesus said to her, 'Your brother will rise again.'

    24 Martha said to him, 'I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.'

    25 Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.'

  • John 11:17-19
    3 verses
    83%

    17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

    18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

    19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

  • Luke 10:38-42
    5 verses
    82%

    38 While they were traveling, He entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.

    39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to His word.

    40 But Martha was distracted by much serving. So she came to Him and asked, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.'

    41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.'

    42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'

  • John 11:1-6
    6 verses
    78%

    1 Now there was a man who was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

    2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, is the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.)

    3 So the sisters sent a message to him, saying, 'Lord, the one you love is sick.'

    4 When Jesus heard it, he said, 'This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

    5 Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.

    6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

  • John 20:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.

    11 Mary, however, stood outside the tomb, weeping. As she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb.

  • John 11:38-40
    3 verses
    76%

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

    39 'Take away the stone,' he said. But Martha, the sister of the dead man, said, 'Lord, by now there is a stench, because he has been dead for four days.'

    40 Jesus said to her, 'Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?'

  • John 12:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 So Jesus came to Bethany six days before the Passover, where Lazarus was—the one who had died and whom He had raised from the dead.

    2 There they prepared a dinner for Him. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.

  • John 11:43-45
    3 verses
    73%

    43 After saying this, he shouted in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out!'

    44 The man who had died came out, bound hand and foot with strips of cloth, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, 'Unbind him and let him go.'

    45 Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus did believed in him.

  • John 11:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 So Jesus told them plainly, 'Lazarus has died.'

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

  • John 20:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    14 After saying this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

    15 Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are you crying? Whom are you seeking?' Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.'

    16 Jesus said to her, 'Mary.' She turned and said to him in Aramaic, 'Rabboni!' (which means 'Teacher').

  • John 12:9
    70%

    9 A large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. They came, not just because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

  • Mark 16:10
    70%

    10 She went and told those who had been with him, who were mourning and weeping.

  • John 20:18
    70%

    18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, 'I have seen the Lord!' and she told them what he had said to her.

  • Matt 27:61
    70%

    61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

  • John 20:3
    70%

    3 Then Peter and the other disciple went out, heading for the tomb.

  • John 20:1
    70%

    1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

  • Mark 5:38
    70%

    38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader, and Jesus saw a commotion with people weeping and wailing loudly.

  • Luke 8:51
    70%

    51 When He arrived at the house, He did not allow anyone to enter with Him except Peter, James, John, and the child’s father and mother.