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Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Unbind him, and let him go. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Conspiracy to Kill Jesus</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>If we let Him <i>go on</i> like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>So from that day on they planned together to kill Him. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/john/11.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/john/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/john/11.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/john/11.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/john/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/john/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/john/11.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/john/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, 'Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_28_evening.htm">March 28 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Our friend sleepeth.--JOHN 11:11. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. But now is Christ risen from the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_28_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_6_morning.htm">November 6 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.--COL. 3:4. I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.--God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_6_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_11_evening.htm">March 11 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Jesus wept.--JOHN 11:35. A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.--It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.--Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_11_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_22_evening.htm">June 22 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Behold how he loved.--JOHN 11:36. He died for all.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. He . . . liveth to make intercession for them.--I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also.--Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.--Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. We love him, because he first loved loved us.--The <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_22_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_30_evening.htm">May 30 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou hearest me always.--JOHN 11:42. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.--Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.--Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.--Not my will, but thine, be done. As he is, so are we in this world.--This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_30_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/christs_question_to_each.htm">Christ's Question to Each</a><br></span><span class="snippet">For the Young '... Believest then this? She saith unto Him, Yea, Lord.'--JOHN xi. 26, 27. As each of these annual sermons which I have preached for so long comes round, I feel more solemnly the growing probability that it may be the last. Like a man nearing the end of his day's work, I want to make the most of the remaining moments. Whether this is the last sermon of the sort that I shall preach or not, it is certainly the last of the kind that some of you will hear from me, or possibly from any <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/christs_question_to_each.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_open_grave_at_bethany.htm">The Open Grave at Bethany</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him. The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_open_grave_at_bethany.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_seventh_miracle_in_johns.htm">The Seventh Miracle in John's Gospel --The Raising of Lazarus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And when Jesus thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, Come forth. 44. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin.'--JOHN xi. 43, 44. The series of our Lord's miracles before the Passion, as recorded in this Gospel, is fitly closed with the raising of Lazarus. It crowns the whole, whether we regard the greatness of the fact, the manner of our Lord's working, the minuteness and richness of the accompanying details, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_seventh_miracle_in_johns.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/caiaphas.htm">Caiaphas</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And one of them, named Caiaphas being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.'--JOHN xi. 49,50. The resurrection of Lazarus had raised a wave of popular excitement. Any stir amongst the people was dangerous, especially at the Passover time, which was nigh at hand, when Jerusalem would be filled with crowds of men, ready to take fire from any spark <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/caiaphas.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_delays_of_love.htm">The Delays of Love</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days still in the same place where He was.'--JOHN xi. 5, 6. We learn from a later verse of this chapter that Lazarus had been dead four days when Christ reached Bethany. The distance from that village to the probable place of Christ's abode, when He received the message, was about a day's journey. If, therefore, to the two days on which He abode still after the receipt of the news, we <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_i/the_delays_of_love.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vi_miracles_no_remedy.htm">Miracles no Remedy for Unbelief. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? and how long will it be ere they believe Me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?"--Numbers xiv. 11. Nothing, I suppose, is more surprising to us at first reading, than the history of God's chosen people; nay, on second and third reading, and on every reading, till we learn to view it as God views it. It seems strange, indeed, to most persons, that the Israelites should have acted as they did, age after age, in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vi_miracles_no_remedy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/11-40.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 11:40"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 11:40" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/11-42.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 11:42"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 11:42" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/john/11-41.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>