John 11:3
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”
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- John 11:5 : 5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
- John 11:36 : 36 Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!”
- John 13:23 : 23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.
- Phil 2:26-27 : 26 Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill. 27 In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to him– and not to him only, but also to me– so that I would not have grief on top of grief.
- 2 Tim 4:20 : 20 Erastus stayed in Corinth. Trophimus I left ill in Miletus.
- Heb 12:6-7 : 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.” 7 Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
- Jas 5:14-15 : 14 Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up– and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
- Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
- John 11:11 : 11 After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
- Gen 22:2 : 2 God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”
- Ps 16:3 : 3 As for God’s chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much–
- John 11:1 : 1 The Death of Lazarus Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
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- John 11:4-74 verses83%
4When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
6So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.
7Then after this, he said to his disciples,“Let us go to Judea again.”
- John 11:1-22 verses82%
1The Death of Lazarus Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
2(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
- John 11:11-155 verses74%
11After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
12Then the disciples replied,“Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)
14Then Jesus told them plainly,“Lazarus has died,
15and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
- John 11:27-3610 verses74%
27She replied,“Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”
28And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately,“The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)
31Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.
34He asked,“Where have you laid him?” They replied,“Lord, come and see.”
35Jesus wept.
36Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!”
- John 11:42-443 verses73%
42I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”
44The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them,“Unwrap him and let him go.”
- John 11:39-402 verses72%
39Jesus said,“Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied,“Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”
40Jesus responded,“Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”
- John 11:17-237 verses72%
17Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
18(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
19so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21Martha said to Jesus,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”
23Jesus replied,“Your brother will come back to life again.”
- John 12:1-33 verses71%
1Jesus’ Anointing Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.
2So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.
3Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair.(Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)
- John 12:9-102 verses69%
9Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.
10So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,
- Luke 7:2-32 verses68%
2A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.
3When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.
- Luke 10:39-402 verses68%
39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.
40But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said,“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”
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17So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.
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6Jesus’ Anointing Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,
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56And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”
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47When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
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26So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother,“Woman, look, here is your son!”
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6“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible anguish.”
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3So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.
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25Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him,“Lord, who is it?”