John 11:39

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead 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

38Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Psalms 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

Mark 16:3They were saying amongst themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

Acts 2:27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Philippians 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even 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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