John 11:39

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of Lazarus, the one who had died, said to Jesus, “Lord, by this time the body will be decaying, for he has been dead for four days.”

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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

In Context

38Then Jesus again, being deeply moved in himself, went to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

40Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that, if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead.”

Psalms 49:9No one can live forever 1 so that his body should not decay. 1

Mark 16:3They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

Acts 2:27For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, 1 neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. 1

Philippians 3:21He will transform our lowly bodies into bodies formed like his glorious body, formed by the might of his power to subject all things to himself.

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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