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John 11:3

Therefore, his sisters sent to him, saying: “Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

In Context

2And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was sick.

4Then, upon hearing this, Jesus said to them: “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

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Cross References

Genesis 22:2He said to him: “Take your only begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of vision. And there you shall offer him as a holocaust upon one of the mountains, which I will show to you.”

John 11:1Now there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, from the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

John 11:11He said these things, and after this, he said to them: “Lazarus our friend is sleeping. But I am going, so that I may awaken him from sleep.”

John 13:23And leaning against the bosom of Jesus was one of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved.

2 Timothy 4:20Erastus remained at Corinth. And Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

James 5:14Is anyone ill among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on John 11:2-17

The Death of Lazarus. 1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister,… Read the whole commentary →

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