John 11:3
His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 22:2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.
John 11:1Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.
John 11:11These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 13:23Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
2 Timothy 4:20Erastus remained at Corinth. And Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.
James 5:14Is any man sick 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. Let him bring in, etc... See here a plain warrant of scripture for the sacrament of extreme unction, that any controversy against its institution would be against the express words of the sacred text in the plainest terms.
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 →