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John 11:30

Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condolence;   Friendship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Readings, Select;   Sorrow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Miracles;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Mary;   Sepulchre;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Women;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Grave;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Burial;   Dominion (2);   Martha ;   Mary;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lazarus ;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus and Martha;   New Testament;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethany;   Miracle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Sleep (and forms);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burial;   Martha;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   Tombs;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
King James Version (1611)
Now Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in that place where Martha met him.
King James Version
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
English Standard Version
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
New American Standard Bible
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha met Him.
New Century Version
Jesus had not yet come into the town but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
Amplified Bible
Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.
Berean Standard Bible
Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
Contemporary English Version
He was still outside the village where Martha had gone to meet him.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;
Darby Translation
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him.
Easy-to-Read Version
He had not yet come into the village. He was still at the place where Martha met him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in the place where Martha met him.
George Lamsa Translation
Jesus had not yet come into the town, but he was still at the same place where Martha met him.
Good News Translation
(Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.)
Lexham English Bible
(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)
Literal Translation
And Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
American Standard Version
(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)
Hebrew Names Version
Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Marta met him.
International Standard Version
Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
Etheridge Translation
But Jeshu himself had not yet come into the village, but was in that place where Martha met him.
Murdock Translation
And Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus was not yet come into the towne: but was in that place where Martha met hym.
English Revised Version
(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)
World English Bible
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was at the place where Martha had met him.
Weymouth's New Testament
Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus cam not yit `in to the castel, but he was yit in that place, where Martha hadde comun ayens hym.
Update Bible Version
(Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)
Webster's Bible Translation
Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
New English Translation
(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)
New King James Version
Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was [fn] in the place where Martha met Him.
New Living Translation
Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.
New Life Bible
Jesus had not yet come into their town. He was still where Martha had met Him.
New Revised Standard
Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Not yet, however, had Jesus come into the village, but was still in the place where, Martha, met him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha had met him.
Revised Standard Version
Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus was not yet come into the toune: but was in the place where Martha met him.
Young's Literal Translation
and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For Iesus was not yet come in to ye towne, but was yet in the place, where Martha met him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for Jesus was not yet arrived in the town, but staid at the place were Martha met him.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus was still there.

Contextual Overview

17 Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before. 18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away; 19 And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother. 20 When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house. 21 Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead. 22 But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you. 23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again. 24 Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day. 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; 26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 11:20

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
Genesis 11:2
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Genesis 11:11
And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
Genesis 11:12
And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
Genesis 25:21
Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
Genesis 29:31
Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
Judges 13:2
Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.
1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.
Psalms 113:9
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town,.... Of Bethany, but stayed without, being nearer to Lazarus's grave, which he intended to go to, in order to raise him to life, it being usual to bury the without the towns and cities; :-,

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but was in that place where Martha met him; here he stopped, and here he continued: the Persic version reads, "but was sitting in the same place", c. waiting for the coming of Mary along with Martha judging this to be a more suitable place to converse together in, than their own house, which was thronged with Jews; and especially he chose it for the reason above given.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. Jesus was not yet come into the town — As the Jewish burying places were without their cities and villages, it appears that the place where our Saviour was, when Martha met him, was not far from the place where Lazarus was buried. Luke 7:12; Luke 7:12.


 
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