John 11:42

⁴⁰ Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

⁴³ After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴ The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
KJV: And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
WEB: I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
ASV: And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
DARBY: but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
BLB: And I knew that You always hear Me; but I said [it] because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”

ÅB: Jeg visste jo at du alltid hører meg, men for folkets skyld som står omkring, sa jeg det, for at de skal tro at du har utsendt meg.
OTB: Jeg vet at Du alltid hører Meg, men jeg sier dette for folkets skyld som står her, slik at de kan tro at Du har sendt Meg."
B1930: Jeg visste jo at du alltid hører mig, men for folkets skyld som står omkring, sa jeg det, forat de skal tro at du har utsendt mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
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John 17:21
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
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Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
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1 John 4:14
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
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Hebrews 5:7
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
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John 11:22
But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”
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Romans 8:3
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
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1 John 4:9–10
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
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