John 11:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When Jesus heard that, he said,This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. ”

• John 11:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This sickness is not unto death - The word “death” here is equivalent to remaining under death, Romans 6:23 . “The wages of sin is death” - permanent or unchanging death, opposed to eternal life...

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• John 11:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 11. The Raising of Lazaras. John 11:1-44 . The Miracle. The withdrawal to Peræ a is brought to a sudden end by the illness of Jesus-' friend Lazarus. Bethany, to distinguish it from the Beth...

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• John 11:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Jesus . App-98. sickness . Greek. asthenia = weakness, not nosos, active disease. See note on Matthew 4:23 . not . Greek. ou, App-105. for . for the purpose of. Greek huper.App-104. t...

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• John 11:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Now Jesus, having heard this, said, This sickness is not to death. He intended by this reply to free his disciples from anxiety, that they might not take it amiss, when they saw him givin...

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• John 11:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When Jesus heard that , he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. This sickness is not unto death - Not to final privation o...

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• John 11:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  This sickness is not unto death,— Compare Matthew 9:24 and Mark 5:39 . All that our Lord could mean here was, that this sickness ofLazarus was not designed to end in his death, considered as a f...

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• John 11:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. When [`But when' de ( G1161 )] Jesus heard tha...

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• John 11:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Christ the Resurrection and the Life 1-44. The raising of Lazarus. The last and greatest of the seven 'signs' recorded in this Gospel is related with such photographic minuteness of detail, that i...

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• John 11:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When Jesus heard that, he said. — These words are not simply an answer sent to the sisters, but the uttered thought which arose in our Lord’s mind as He heard that Lazarus was ill, and were spoken...

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• John 11:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 23 JESUS THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE. “Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointme...

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• John 11:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus Faces Death for His Friend John 11:1-16 Sickness enters homes even where God is honored and loved. It is permitted because it affords an opportunity and platform for His delivering help....

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• John 11:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the account of the last sign wrought by Jesus as recorded by John, namely, the raising of Lazarus. Very beautiful in this connection is the depiction of the sorrow of the sisters, and ou...

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• John 11:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (2) (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose bro...

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• John 11:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When Jesus heard that ,.... That his friend Lazarus was sick, he said ; either to his disciples, or to the messenger or messengers that brought the account to him, and that on purpose to yield som...

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• John 11:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When Jesus heard that , he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Ver. 4. But for the glory of God ] Happy Lazarus, thou...

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• John 11:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore his sisters Observing his sickness was of a dangerous kind, and therefore being full of concern for him, knowing where Jesus was, thought proper to send him word of it; for they firmly ex...

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• John 11:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE DEATH OF LAZARUS (vs.1-27) The raising of Lazarus in this chapter is a striking witness to the fact that the plotting of the Jews to kill the Lord Jesus was vanity; for He Himself is superior...

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• John 11:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Death of Lazarus.       1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.   2 (It...

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• John 11:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  God hath not sent this sickness upon Lazarus to determine his being upon the earth; or such a separation of the soul of Lazarus from his body, as there shall be no reunion of it before the general re...

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• John 11:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘But when Jesus heard it he said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby”.' Jesus' reply was that the sickness would not finally be...

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• John 11:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES THE RAISING OF LAZARUS John 11:1-2 . The various theories as to the reason why this great miracle is not recorded by the other Evangelists need not be fully discus...

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• John 11:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 11 In selecting this word we are struck with the frequency of its occurrence in this chapter. There is: I. The "If" of wisdom. Jesus answered "If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not."...

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• John 11:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 11:1 . Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town or Mary and her sister Martha. In God's book, towns are most remarkable for saints that dwell in them. «The town of Mar...

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• John 11:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 11:2 . It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment. The allusion to this anointing is obscure. It could not be to the similar occurrence in Luke 7 ., for that was a woman of the c...

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• John 11:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany Lazarus The English reader would at first sight hardly recognize the New Testament “Lazarus” as identical with the Old Testament “Eleazar. ”...

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• John 11:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 11:1-43 7. Christ the Antagonist of death—a victory of love and power . The narrative of this chapter is a further advance in the proof that the unbelief of the Jews w...

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• John 11:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Raising of Lazarus. The death of Lazarus:

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• John 11:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:21 ; 1 Peter 4:11 ; 1 Peter 4:14 ; John 11:40 ; John 12:28 ; John 13:31 ; John 13:32 ; John 17:1 ; John 17:10 ; John 17:5 ; John 2:11 ; John 5:23 ; John 8:54 ; John 9:24 ; Jo...

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• John 11:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Raising of Lazarus John 11:1-44 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Some ideas concerning the cause of sickness. (1) The ancients thought that sickness was the result of sin. The Book of Job goes into...

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• John 11:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God — The event of this sickness will not be death, in the usual sense of the word, a final separation of his soul and body; but a manifestation...

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