John 11:17

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܶܐܬ݂ܳܐ ܝܶܫܽܘܥ ܠܒ݂ܶܝܬ݂‌ܥܰܢܝܳܐ ܘܶܐܫܟ݁ܰܚ ܕ݁ܰܐܪܒ݁ܥܳܐ ܠܶܗ ܝܰܘܡܺܝܢ ܕ݁ܺܐܝܬ݂ܰܘܗ݈ܝ ܒ݁ܒ݂ܶܝܬ݂ ܩܒ݂ܽܘܪܳܐ ܀

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

four: John 11:39, John 2:19, Hosea 6:2, Acts 2:27-31

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:32 - the child John 4:42 - and know

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then when Jesus came,.... The Alexandrian copy, and all the Oriental versions add, "to Bethany"; though it seems by what follows, that he was not come to the town itself, but near it; and it looks as if it was not far from Lazarus's grave; and it was usual to bury without the city; and here he had intelligence of his, Lazarus's, death, and how long he had been dead:

for he found he had lain in the grave four days already; it is very likely that he died the same day that Mary and Martha sent to Christ to acquaint him with his sickness, and the same day he was buried; for the Jews used to bury the same day a person died, and so they do now: and after Christ had this account, he stayed two days where he was, and on the third day, he proposed to his disciples to go into Judea; and very probably on that, or on the next day, which was the fourth, they set out and came to Bethany; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the grave - It was sometimes the custom to embalm the dead, but in this case it does not seem to have been done. He was probably buried soon after death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 11:17. He had lain in the grave four days already. — Our Lord probably left Bethabara the day, or the day after, Lazarus died. He came to Bethany three days after; and it appears that Lazarus had been buried about four days, and consequently that he had been put in the grave the day or day after he died. Though it was the Jewish custom to embalm their dead, yet we find, from John 11:39, that he had not been embalmed; and God wisely ordered this, that the miracle might appear the more striking.