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Themes in John 11
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Themes in John 11

John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus, from Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. [See 11:18].

John 11:2

This was the Mary who had poured the perfume on the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair [See Matt. 26:6-13], whose brother Lazarus was sick.

John 11:3

So, the sisters sent [someone] to Him, saying, "Look, Lord, the person you love [i.e., your dear friend, Lazarus] is sick."

John 11:4

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This illness will not result in [his] death, but was intended to bring honor to God, so that the Son of God would be honored by it."

John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister [Mary] and [her brother] Lazarus.

John 11:6

So, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was [i.e., on the east side of the Jordan River. See 10:40] for two [more] days.

John 11:7

Then, after this, He said to His disciples, "Let us go [back] to Judea again."

John 11:8

The disciples replied to Him, "The Jews [there] have just been trying to stone you, and you are going back again?"

John 11:9

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? [i.e., hours of daylight]. If a person walks during daylight, he will not stumble because he can see [by] the sun's light.

John 11:10

But if he walks at night he [might] stumble, because there is no light [to see by]. [Note: These words have a figurative meaning as Jesus is speaking about His mission in life].

John 11:11

After saying these things He said to His disciples, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up."

John 11:12

But the disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he is [only] asleep, he will get well."

John 11:13

Now Jesus had been talking about Lazarus' death, but the disciples thought He was referring to normal sleep.

John 11:14

So, Jesus said plainly, "Lazarus is dead.

John 11:15

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there [when he died], so that [now] you will believe [i.e., when you see him miraculously raised up]. But let us go to him [now]."

John 11:16

Then Thomas, which means, "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so we can die with Him." [i.e., by being stoned to death with Jesus. See 11:8].

John 11:17

So, when Jesus arrived, He found out that Lazarus had already been in his grave [i.e., a cave-like tomb] for four days.

John 11:18

Now Bethany was close to Jerusalem, [being] fewer than two miles away,

John 11:19

and many of Martha and Mary's Jewish friends had come to comfort them over [the loss of] their brother.

John 11:20

So, when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went [out to the edge of town. See verse 30] to meet Him, but Mary [just] sat at home [i.e., probably grief-stricken].

John 11:21

Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if [only] you had been here, my brother would not have died.

John 11:22

And I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask Him for."

John 11:23

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again [from the dead]."

John 11:24

Martha replied to Him, "I know that he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day [i.e., the judgment day]."

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the person who believes in me will live on, even though he dies [physically].

John 11:26

And whoever goes on living and believing in me, will never die [spiritually]. Do you believe this?"

John 11:27

Martha answered Him, "Yes, Lord, I have [already] believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

John 11:28

After saying this, she left and called her sister Mary and said to her privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

John 11:29

And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Jesus.

John 11:30

(Now Jesus had not yet arrived in town, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him [i.e., probably on the road near the edge of town]).

John 11:31

When Martha's Jewish friends, who had been comforting her at her house, saw Mary getting up quickly and leaving, they followed her, thinking she was going to the grave site to mourn.

John 11:32

So, when Mary arrived at where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell down at His feet and said, "Lord, if [only] you had been here, my brother would not have died."

John 11:33

When Jesus saw her and her Jewish friends, who had come with her, crying, He felt distressed in His spirit and [visibly] troubled [Note: This last word means to shake with emotion, and seems to have been caused by His deep sympathy for these grieving people],

John 11:34

and said, "Where have they laid his body?" They answered Him, "Lord, come and see."

John 11:35

Jesus shed tears.

John 11:36

[Some of] the Jewish friends then said, "Look how [much] he loved him!" [See verse 3].

John 11:37

But others of them said, "Could not this man, who restored sight to a blind person, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

John 11:38

So, Jesus again felt distressed within Himself [as He] went to the grave site, which was a cave with a stone [slab] across its entrance.

John 11:39

Jesus said, "You people, take the stone away." [But] Martha, the dead man's sister, said to Jesus, "Lord, his body is decomposing by now, for he has been dead four days."

John 11:40

Jesus replied to her, "Did I not tell you that you would see God's glory [i.e., a miraculous resurrection. See verses 22-27] if you believed?"

John 11:41

So, they removed the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, thank you for hearing me. [Note: Jesus had already prayed for and been assured of Lazarus' resurrection].

John 11:42

I know that you always hear me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so they would believe that you sent me."

John 11:43

And after He had said this, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

John 11:44

[Immediately] the man who had died came out [of the cave] with his hands and feet [still] wrapped in bandages, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to his Jewish friends, "Unwrap him and let him go."

John 11:45

When many of Mary's Jewish friends, who had come to console her, saw what Jesus had done, they believed in Him.

John 11:46

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

John 11:47

So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called "the Sanhedrin"] and said, "What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?

John 11:48

If we allow him to go on [doing this], everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy our Temple and our nation [i.e., its people]."

John 11:49

But a certain member of the Sanhedrin, [named] Caiaphas, who was head priest that year, said to [the rest of] them, "You do not know what you are talking about.

John 11:50

And you are not taking into consideration that it would be profitable to you for one man to die for the people, so that the entire nation would not be destroyed."

John 11:51

Now he did not say this on his own [i.e., he was not aware of the significance of his words], but since he was head priest that year, he was prophesying [i.e., predicting] that Jesus should die for the nation.

John 11:52

And not just [die] for the [Jewish] nation, but also that He would assemble together into one body the children of God who were scattered [throughout the world].

John 11:53

So, from that day onward, the Jewish authorities began plotting [how] to kill Jesus.

John 11:54

So, Jesus stopped traveling publicly among the Jews [in Judea], but left there and went to a district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, where He remained with His disciples. [Note: Ephraim was a small town about

John 11:55

Now the Jewish Passover Festival was to be held soon and many people went up to Jerusalem from the countryside before the [actual] Festival in order to perform the ceremonial purification rituals.

John 11:56

So, they began looking for Jesus and saying among themselves, as they gathered in the Temple, "What do you think? He will not attend the Festival, will he?"
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John 11:57

Now the leading priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he was to report it, so they could arrest Him.
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