John 11:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then 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.

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  • John 11:19 : 19 so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
  • 1 Cor 2:15 : 15 The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.
  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.
  • 2 Sam 12:16-18 : 16 Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground. 17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them. 18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said,“While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”

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  • John 11:32-36
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    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 11:28-30
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    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.)

  • John 11:19-21
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    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.

  • John 20:10-11
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    10Jesus’ Appearance to Mary Magdalene So the disciples went back to their homes.

    11But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

  • Mark 16:10
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    10She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

  • Mark 5:38-39
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    38They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

    39When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”

  • John 11:1-3
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    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.)

    3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

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    17Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

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    51Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.

    52Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!”

    53And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

    54But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said,“Child, get up.”

  • John 11:38-39
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    38Lazarus Raised from the Dead Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb.(Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

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  • John 11:23
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    23Jesus replied,“Your brother will come back to life again.”

  • John 11:43-45
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    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.”

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  • John 20:15
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    15Jesus said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought 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.”

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  • Luke 7:11-13
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    11Raising a Widow’s Son Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

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    13They said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied,“They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

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

  • Mark 15:47
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    47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was placed.

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  • Matt 14:12
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    12Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

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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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    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.

  • Luke 1:39
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    41When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

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    11After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”