John 11:39
“Remove the stone,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man's sister, said, “Lord, by now there will be a terrible smell, for he's been dead for four days.”
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38Very troubled, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a large stone placed at the entrance.
40“Didn't I tell you that if you trusted me you would see God's glory?” Jesus replied.
Cross References
Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner, a stranger living among you,” he said. “Please let me buy a burial site so I can bury my dead wife.”
Psalms 49:9that they could live forever and not face the grave.
Mark 16:3They were asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”
Acts 2:27For you will not abandon me in the grave, nor will you allow your Holy One to experience decay.
Philippians 3:21He will re-create our defective human bodies so that they will be made like his glorious body using the power by which he brings everything under his control.
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 →