John 11:5

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."

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.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹A man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. This was the same Mary who massaged the Lord's feet with aromatic oils and then wiped them with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Master, the one you love so very much is sick." ⁴ When Jesus got the message, he said, "This sickness is not fatal. It will become an occasion to show God's glory by glorifying God's Son." ⁵Jesus 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." ⁸ They said, "Rabbi, you can't do that. The Jews are out to kill you, and you're going back?" ⁹Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in daylight doesn't stumble because there's plenty of light from the sun. Walking at night, he might very well stumble because he can't see where he's going." ¹¹ He said these things, and then announced, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I'm going to wake him up." ¹²The disciples said, "Master, if he's gone to sleep, he'll get a good rest and wake up feeling fine." Jesus was talking about death, while his disciples thought he was talking about taking a nap. ¹⁴Then Jesus became explicit: "Lazarus died. And I am glad for your sakes that I wasn't there. You're about to be given new grounds for believing. Now let's go to him." ¹⁶ That's when Thomas, the one called the Twin, said to his companions, "Come along. We might as well die with 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 11:14
When Shelah was thirty years old, he had Eber. After Shelah had Eber, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he had Terah. After Nahor had Terah, he lived 119 more years and had other sons and daughters.

Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was all smoke because God had come down on it as fire. Smoke poured from it like smoke from a furnace. The whole mountain shuddered in huge spasms. The trumpet blasts grew louder and louder. Moses spoke and God answered in thunder. God descended to the peak of Mount Sinai. God called Moses up to the peak and Moses climbed up.

Psalms 11:4
But God hasn't moved to the mountains; his holy address hasn't changed. He's in charge, as always, his eyes taking everything in, his eyelids Unblinking, examining Adam's unruly brood inside and out, not missing a thing. He tests the good and the bad alike; if anyone cheats, God's outraged. Fail the test and you're out, out in a hail of firestones, Drinking from a canteen filled with hot desert wind.

John 3:13
"No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man. In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up—and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life.

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.