John 11:42
"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
41Then they rolled the stone away; and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said.
43When he had said this he cried with a great voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"
Cross References
Matthew 26:53"Do you not suppose that I am able to appeal to my Father to furnish me at this very moment with twelve legions of angels?
John 6:38"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
John 8:16"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.
John 8:42Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.
John 10:36do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John 11:31Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
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 →