John 11:39

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus said,“Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied,“Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

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  • John 11:17 : 17 Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,
  • Phil 3:21 : 21 who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 “I am a foreign resident, a temporary settler, among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.
  • Mark 16:3 : 3 They had been asking each other,“Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

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  • John 11:11-26
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    11After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

    12Then the disciples replied,“Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

    13(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

    14Then Jesus told them plainly,“Lazarus has died,

    15and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

    16So Thomas(called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples,“Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

    17Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

    18(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

    19so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

    20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

    21Martha said to Jesus,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

    22But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

    23Jesus replied,“Your brother will come back to life again.”

    24Martha said,“I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”

    25Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

    26and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

  • John 11:29-38
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    29So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

    30(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

    31Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

    32Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

    33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

    34He asked,“Where have you laid him?” They replied,“Lord, come and see.”

    35Jesus wept.

    36Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!”

    37But some of them said,“This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

    38Lazarus Raised from the Dead Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb.(Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

  • John 11:40-44
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    40Jesus responded,“Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”

    41So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said,“Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

    42I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

    43When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”

    44The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them,“Unwrap him and let him go.”

  • John 12:1
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    1Jesus’ Anointing Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

  • John 11:1-6
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    1The Death of Lazarus Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

    2(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

    3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

    4When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

    5(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

    6So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

  • Luke 7:14-15
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    14Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said,“Young man, I say to you, get up!”

    15So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

  • John 12:17
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    17So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

  • Luke 8:52-54
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    52Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!”

    53And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

    54But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said,“Child, get up.”

  • Mark 5:39
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    39When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”

  • Mark 16:3
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    3They had been asking each other,“Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

  • John 20:15
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    15Jesus said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him,“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

  • Matt 14:12
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    12Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

  • Luke 10:40
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    40But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said,“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

  • John 12:9
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    9Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.