John 11:5

Amplified Bible

Now Jesus loved and was concerned about Martha and her sister and Lazarus [and considered them dear friends].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.

King James Version (1611)
Now Iesus loued Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

King James Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

English Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New American Standard Bible
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.)

New Century Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and brother.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El‘azar;

Darby Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Iesus loued Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.

George Lamsa Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus.

Good News Translation
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Lexham English Bible
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Literal Translation
And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

American Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Bible in Basic English
Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Hebrew Names Version
Now Yeshua loved Marta, and her sister, and El'azar.

International Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Etheridge Translation
But Jeshu loved Martha and Mariam and Loozar.

Murdock Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary, and Lazarus.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus loued Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

English Revised Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

World English Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. So after he had heard that he was sick,

Weymouth's New Testament
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus louyde Martha, and hir sistir Marie, and Lazarus.

Update Bible Version
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

New English Translation
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

New King James Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New Living Translation
So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,

New Life Bible
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

New Revised Standard
Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.

Revised Standard Version
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Laz'arus.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus loued Martha & hir sister, & Lazarus.

Mace New Testament (1729)
now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

THE MESSAGE
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, but oddly, when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on where he was for two more days. After the two days, he said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now Jesus loved Mary and Martha like sisters. He loved Lazarus like a brother.

Contextual Overview

¹Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. ²It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. ³So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, "Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick." ⁴When Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness will not end in death; but [on the contrary it is] for the glory and honor of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it." ⁵Now Jesus loved and was concerned about Martha and her sister and Lazarus [and considered them dear friends].⁶So [even] when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed in the same place two more days. ⁷Then He said to His disciples, "Let us go back to Judea." ⁸The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi (Teacher), the Jews were only recently going to stone You, and You are [thinking of] going back there again?" ⁹Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours [of light] in the day? Anyone who walks in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees [by] the light of this world. ¹⁰"But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loved: John 11:8, John 11:36, John 15:9-13, John 16:27, John 17:26

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:20 - and then died Daniel 10:19 - O man Matthew 8:24 - but John 11:1 - Lazarus John 13:23 - whom

Cross-References

Genesis 11:13
Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after Shelah was born, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14
When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.

Genesis 11:23
And Serug lived two hundred years after Nahor was born, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 18:21
"I will go down now, and see whether they have acted [as vilely and wickedly] as the outcry which has come to Me [indicates]; and if not, I will know."

Exodus 3:8
"So I have come down to rescue them from the hand (power) of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a land [that is] good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey [a land of plenty]—to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 19:11
and be ready by the third day, because on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai [in the cloud] in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Exodus 19:20
The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

Psalms 11:4
The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD'S throne is in heaven. His eyes see, His eyelids test the children of men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 loves all his people alike; but with a very great human affection, and which was very singular and peculiar to them: these were the intimate friends, and familiar acquaintance of Christ, whom he often visited, at whose house he frequently was when in those parts; they were very hospitable to him; they kindly received him into their houses, and generously entertained him, and which he returned in love to them: hence Nonnus paraphrases the words,

"Jesus loved the women, φιλοξεινους, "who were lovers of hospitality", by the law of kindness.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 11:5. 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 more favourable opportunity of proving to them how much he loved them. Christ never denies a less favour, but in order to confer a greater. God's delays, in answering prayers offered to him by persons in distress, are often proofs of his purpose to confer some great kindness, and they are also proofs that his wisdom finds it necessary to permit an increase of the affliction, that his goodness may be more conspicuous in its removal.