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John 11:5

John 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. Not only with an everlasting love, a love of complacency and delight, an unchangeable one, and which never varies, nor will ever end, with which he…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus - Therefore his staying two days longer in Bethabara was not through lack of affection for this distressed family, but merely that he might have a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

John 11:1-16

We have in these verses,

I. A particular account of the parties principally concerned in this story, Joh 11:1, Joh 11:2. 1. They lived at Bethany, a village nor far from Jerusalem, where Christ…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Now Jesus loved Martha The English Version loses much here, and still more in Joh 21:15-17, by using the same word -love" to translate two different Greek words: nor can the loss be remedied…

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