John 11:5

Bible in Basic English

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.

King James Version (1611)
Now Iesus loued Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

King James Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

English Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New American Standard Bible
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.)

New Century Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Amplified Bible
Now Jesus loved and was concerned about Martha and her sister and Lazarus [and considered them dear friends].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and brother.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El‘azar;

Darby Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Iesus loued Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.

George Lamsa Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus.

Good News Translation
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Lexham English Bible
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Literal Translation
And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

American Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Hebrew Names Version
Now Yeshua loved Marta, and her sister, and El'azar.

International Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Etheridge Translation
But Jeshu loved Martha and Mariam and Loozar.

Murdock Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary, and Lazarus.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus loued Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

English Revised Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

World English Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. So after he had heard that he was sick,

Weymouth's New Testament
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus louyde Martha, and hir sistir Marie, and Lazarus.

Update Bible Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

New English Translation
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

New King James Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New Living Translation
So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,

New Life Bible
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New Revised Standard
Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.

Revised Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Laz'arus.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus loued Martha & hir sister, & Lazarus.

Mace New Testament (1729)
now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

THE MESSAGE
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, but oddly, when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on where he was for two more days. After the two days, he said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now Jesus loved Mary and Martha like sisters. He loved Lazarus like a brother.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.) ³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill. ⁴ When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it. ⁵ Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days. ⁷ Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. ⁸ The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again? ⁹ Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loved: John 11:8, John 11:36, John 15:9-13, John 16:27, John 17:26

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:20 - and then died Daniel 10:19 - O man Matthew 8:24 - but John 11:1 - Lazarus John 13:23 - whom

Cross-References

Genesis 11:13
And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 11:14
And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

Genesis 11:23
And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 11:24
And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Exodus 19:11
And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.

Exodus 19:18
And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

Exodus 19:20
Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. Not only with an everlasting love, a love of complacency and delight, an unchangeable one, and which never varies, nor will ever end, with which he loves all his people alike; but with a very great human affection, and which was very singular and peculiar to them: these were the intimate friends, and familiar acquaintance of Christ, whom he often visited, at whose house he frequently was when in those parts; they were very hospitable to him; they kindly received him into their houses, and generously entertained him, and which he returned in love to them: hence Nonnus paraphrases the words,

"Jesus loved the women, φιλοξεινους, "who were lovers of hospitality", by the law of kindness.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 11:5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. — Therefore his staying two days longer in Bethabara was not through lack of affection for this distressed family, but merely that he might have a more favourable opportunity of proving to them how much he loved them. Christ never denies a less favour, but in order to confer a greater. God's delays, in answering prayers offered to him by persons in distress, are often proofs of his purpose to confer some great kindness, and they are also proofs that his wisdom finds it necessary to permit an increase of the affliction, that his goodness may be more conspicuous in its removal.