John 11:3
So the two sisters sent someone to tell Jesus about Lazarus, saying, “Lord, the one you love very much is very sick.”
Translation for Translators
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 22:2God said, “Your son, Isaac, whom you love very much, is the only son who is still here with you. But take him and go together to the Moriah region. Offer him as a sacrifice like a burnt offering, on a hill that I will show you.”
John 11:1One time there was a man whose name was Lazarus who was very sick. He lived in Bethany village, where his older sisters Mary and Martha also lived.
John 11:11After 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.”
John 13:23I, the man other people call ‘the one Jesus loved’, was sitting very close to Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:20Erastus stayed in Corinth city. Trophimus, I left in Miletus city because he was sick.
James 5:14Whoever among you is sick [RHQ] should call the leaders of the congregation to come to pray for him. They should put olive oil on him and, with the Lord’s authority [MTY] (OR, calling on the Lord to heal him), pray.
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 →