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John 11:42

And I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the people who are standing nearby, so that they may believe that you have sent me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

In Context

41Therefore, they took away the stone. Then, lifting up his eyes, Jesus said: “Father, I give thanks to you because you have heard me.

43When he had said these things, he cried in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”

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Cross References

Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I cannot ask my Father, so that he would give me, even now, more than twelve legions of Angels?

John 6:38For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 8:16And when I do judge, my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but it is I and he who sent me: the Father.

John 8:42Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

John 10:36why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

John 11:31Therefore, the Jews who were with her in the house and who were consoling her, when they had seen that Mary rose up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb, so that she may weep there.”

Matthew Henry on John 11:34-45

Christ at the Grave of Lazarus; The Resurrection of Lazarus. 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! 37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh… Read the whole commentary →

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