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Lexham English Bible

John 11:5

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Family;   Friendship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Miracles;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christ;   Christ's;   Dead, the;   Divine;   Faith;   Faith-Unbelief;   Friends of Christ;   Friendship;   Friendship-Friendlessness;   Hindrances;   Miracles;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Families;   Love of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lazarus;   Martha;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lazarus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Incarnation;   John, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Martha;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dominion (2);   Hospitality;   Martha ;   Mary;   Nympha Nymphas;   Pity;   Prudence;   Reserve;   Social Life;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lazarus ;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus and Martha;   New Testament;   8 To Love, Have Affection for;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethany;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lazarus;   Martha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;   Laz'arus;   Mar'tha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lazarus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 30;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 16;  

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.
Literal Translation
And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
American Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Bible in Basic English
Now Jesus had love in his heart for 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 was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 So the sisters sent word to him, saying, "Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick." 4 And when he heard it, Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it." 5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) 6 So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place where he was two days. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." 8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?" 9 Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, 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 Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14
When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber.
Genesis 11:23
And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he fathered Terah.
Genesis 18:21
I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me? If not, I will know."
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 19:11
and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.
Exodus 19:18
And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
Exodus 19:20
And Yahweh went down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
Psalms 11:4
Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne. His eyelids see; they test the children of humankind.

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.


 
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