John 11:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

John 11:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
John 11:11
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.
2 Timothy 4:20
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
Hebrews 12:6-7
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

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 reason…

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

(vv. 3)

3-5. his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick--a most womanly appeal, yet how reverential, to the known affection of her Lord for the patient. (See Joh 11:5, 11). “Those whom Christ loves are no more exempt than others from their share of earthly trouble and anguish: rather are they bound over to it more surely” [Trench].