John 11:39

World English Bible (2000)

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

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  • John 11:17 : 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • Phil 3:21 : 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
  • Mark 16:3 : 3 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"

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  • John 11:11-26
    16 verses
    86%

    11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

    12 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

    13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

    14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

    15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."

    16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."

    17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

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

    19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

    20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

    21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

    22 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of 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 at the last day."

    25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

    26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

  • John 11:29-38
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    85%

    29 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

    30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

    31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

    32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

    33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

    34 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

    35 Jesus wept.

    36 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"

    37 Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

    38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

  • John 11:40-44
    5 verses
    79%

    40 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

    41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

    42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."

    43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

    44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

  • John 12:1
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    1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

  • John 11:1-6
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    1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

    2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

    3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

    4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

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

    6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

  • Luke 7:14-15
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    14 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"

    15 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

  • John 12:17
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    17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

  • Luke 8:52-54
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    52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping."

    53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

    54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!"

  • Mark 5:39
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    39 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

  • Mark 16:3
    70%

    3 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"

  • John 20:15
    70%

    15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

  • Matt 14:12
    70%

    12 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

  • Luke 10:40
    69%

    40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."

  • John 12:9
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    9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.