John 11:37 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁷And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

John 11:37 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 9:6-7
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, …
John 11:21
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Luke 23:35
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
Psalms 78:19-20
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? …
Mark 15:32
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

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Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

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

(vv. 33-44)

Here we have, I. Christ’s tender sympathy with his afflicted friends, and the share he took to himself in their sorrows, which appeared three ways:— 1. By the inward groans and troubles of his spirit (John 11:33): Jesus saw Mary weeping for the loss of a loving brother, and the Jews that came with her weeping for the loss of a good neighbour and friend; when he saw what a place of weepers, a bochi…

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

(vv. 37)

33-38. When Jesus ... saw her weeping, and the Jews ... weeping ... he groaned in the spirit--the tears of Mary and her friends acting sympathetically upon Jesus, and drawing forth His emotions. What a vivid and beautiful outcoming of His “real” humanity! The word here rendered “groaned” does not mean “sighed” or “grieved,” but rather “powerfully checked his emotion”--made a visible effort to rest…