John 11:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

John 11:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Luke 10:38-42
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. …
Acts 28:15
And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
John 11:30
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
Acts 10:25
And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-32)

The matter being determined, that Christ will go to Judea, and his disciples with him, they address themselves to their journey; in this journey some circumstances happened which the other evangelists record, as the healing of the blind man at Jericho, and the conversion of Zaccheus. We must not reckon ourselves out of our way, while we are in the way of doing good; nor be so intent upon one good…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20-22. Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him--true to the energy and activity of her character, as seen in Lu 10:38-42. (See on Lu 10:38-42). but Mary sat ... in the house--equally true to her placid character. These undesigned touches not only charmingly illustrate the minute historic fidelity of both narratives, but their inner harmony.