John 11:39

And Jesus said: Take away this stone. Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: My Lord, by this time he is putrid; for four days have elapsed.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

38And Jesus, still agitated within, came to the grave. Now the grave was a cave, and a stone was laid upon its entrance.

40Jesus said to her: Did I not tell thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?

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Cross References

Mark 16:3And they said among them. selves: Who will roll back for us the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

Acts 2:27For thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave, nor wilt thou give thy pious one to see corruption.

Philippians 3:21who will change the body of our abasement, that it may have the likeness of the body of his glory, according to his great power, whereby all things are made subject to him.

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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