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King James Version (KJV)
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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John 11:3 – Amplified Bible
So the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, he whom You love is sick.
John 11:3 – American Standard Version
The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11:3 – Bible in Basic English
So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
John 11:3 – Darby Bible
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11:3 – English Standard Version
So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
John 11:3 – King James Version
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11:3 – La Biblia de las Americas
Las hermanas entonces mandaron a decir a Jesùs: Señor, mira, el que tù amas está enfermo.
John 11:3 – The Message
John 11:3 – New American Standard Bible
So the sisters sent {word} to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
John 11:3 – Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
Las hermanas entonces mandaron a decir a Jesùs: “Señor, el que Tù amas está enfermo.”
John 11:3 – World English Bible
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
John 11:3 – Young’s Living Translation
therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;`
John 11:3 – Additional Comments
Interesting that they mention not Mary and Martha’s love for Lazarus, but Jesus’ love for him. It wasn’t, “whom we love”, but “whom You love”. Also note that even though Jesus had a special affection for Lazarus, Lazarus still got sick. Any of us may have loved ones who get sick, regardless of the strength of our faith.
We need to be careful not to judge another’s relationship with God based on their circumstances. We see that with Lazarus, as we did with Job. See 1 Cor 4:5.
Note that word was sent to Jesus that Lazarus was sick, not dead.
Mary and Martha did not travel to get Jesus, but sent a messenger.
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Parallel Verses
King James Version
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Holman Bible
So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
Amplified
So the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, he whom You love is sick.
An Understandable Version
So, the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Look, Lord, the person you love is sick.”
Darby Translation
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Godbey New Testament
Then the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, behold the one whom thou lovest is sick.
Jubilee 2000 Bible
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
King James 2000
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, whom you love is sick.”
NET Bible
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”
Noyes New Testament
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
The Emphasized Bible
The sisters, therefore, sent out unto him, saying – Lord, see! he whom thou tenderly lovest, is sick.
Webster
Therefore his sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Williams New Testament
So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, “Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick.”
World English Bible
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
Worrell New Testament
The sisters, therefore, sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick.”
Worsley New Testament
His sisters therefore sent to Him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Interlinear
English(KJV)
Strong’s
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Eido
knowcannot tellknow howwist
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seebeholdlookperceive
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see
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know
Usage: 519
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The Death of Lazarus
1Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”
11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus
17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead
38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 “Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
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