3Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)We have in these verses, I. A particular account of the parties principally concerned in this story, John 11:1 , 2 . 1. They lived at Bethany , a village nor far from Jerusalem, where Christ usually lodged when he came up to the feasts. It is here called the town of Mary and Martha , that is, the town where they dwelt, as Bethsaida is called the city of Andrew and Peter , John 1:44. For I see no r…
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