Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid.
And Jesus lifted up his eyes, х eeren (G142) ... anoo (G507)]. The attitude is somewhat emphatically expressed-`lifted His eyes upward,' marking His calm solemnity (compare John 17:1).
And said, Father, I thank thee thou hast heard me, х eekousas (G191)] - rather, 'heardest me;' referring, as we think, to a specific prayer offered by Him, probably on intelligence of the case reaching Him (John 11:3-4); for His living and loving oneness with the Father was maintained and manifested in the flesh, not merely by the spontaneous and uninterrupted outgoing of Each to Each in spirit, but by specific actings of faith and exercises of prayer about each successive case as it emerged. He prayed, as Luthardt well says, 'not for what He wanted, but for the manifestation of what He had;' and having the bright consciousness of the answer in the felt liberty to ask it, and the assurance that it was at hand. He gives thanks for this with a grand simplicity before performing the act.