Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

John 11:6

Waiting on GodGod's will and calling

4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

7 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

Read the whole chapter

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
So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
KJV
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
WEB
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
ASV
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.
DARBY
When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
BLB
Therefore when He heard that he is sick, then indeed He remained in the place in which He was two days.
ÅB
Da han nå hørte at han var syk, ble han enda to dager på det sted hvor han var;
OTB
Så da Han hørte at Lasarus var syk, ble Han der Han var i to dager til,
B1930
Da han nu hørte at han var syk, blev han ennu to dager på det sted hvor han var;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 30:18

    Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 55:8–9

    “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 42:24

    And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 22:14

    And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

    Read in context

  • Genesis 43:29–31

    When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

    Read in context

  • Matthew 15:22–28

    And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

    Read in context

  • Genesis 45:1–5

    Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

    Read in context

  • Genesis 44:1–5

    Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

    Read in context