John 11:12

So we said to him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. So you do not need to risk your life by going there.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

In Context

11After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”

13Jesus was speaking figuratively about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.

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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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