John 11:43

Contemporary English Version

When Jesus had finished praying, he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
After Jesus said this he called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when he thus had spoken he cryed wt a loud voyce. Lazarus come forthe.

Hebrew Names Version
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "El'azar, come out!"

International Standard Version
After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

New American Standard Bible
And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

New Century Version
After Jesus said this, he cried out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Update Bible Version
And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

English Standard Version
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

World English Bible
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having spoken thus, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Weymouth's New Testament
After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne he hadde seid these thingis, he criede with a greet vois, Lazarus, come thou forth.

English Revised Version
And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Berean Standard Bible
After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Amplified Bible
When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

American Standard Version
And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Bible in Basic English
Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

Complete Jewish Bible
Having said this, he shouted, "El‘azar! Come out!"

Darby Translation
And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Etheridge Translation
And when he had said these (words), he cried with a high voice, Loozar, come without !

Murdock Translation
And when he had thus spoken, he called with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth!

King James Version (1611)
And when hee thus had spoken, he cryed with a loude voice, Lazarus, come foorth.

New Living Translation
Then Jesus shouted, "Lazarus, come out!"

New Life Bible
When He had said this, He called with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

New Revised Standard
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
As hee had spoken these things, hee cried with a loude voyce, Lazarus, come foorth.

George Lamsa Translation
And when he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come outside.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, these things, having said, with a loud voice, he cried out - Lazarus! Come forth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

Revised Standard Version
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Laz'arus, come out."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he thus had spoken, he cryed with a loude voyce: Lazarus, come foorth.

Good News Translation
After he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Christian Standard Bible®
After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

King James Version
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Lexham English Bible
And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Literal Translation
And saying these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus! Here! Outside!

Young's Literal Translation
And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan he had sayde this, he cryed loude: Lazarus come forth.

Mace New Testament (1729)
when he had spoke this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

THE MESSAGE
Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!" And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."

New English Translation
When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

New King James Version
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then Jesus stated in a commanding voice, "Lazarus, come here!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth."

Legacy Standard Bible
And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth."

Contextual Overview

³³ When Jesus saw that Mary and the people with her were crying, he was terribly upset ³⁴ and asked, "Where have you put his body?" They replied, "Lord, come and you will see." ³⁵ Jesus started crying, ³⁶ and the people said, "See how much he loved Lazarus." ³⁷ Some of them said, "He gives sight to the blind. Why couldn't he have kept Lazarus from dying?" ³⁸ Jesus was still terribly upset. So he went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone rolled against the entrance. ³⁹ Then he told the people to roll the stone away. But Martha said, "Lord, you know that Lazarus has been dead four days, and there will be a bad smell." ⁴⁰ Jesus replied, "Didn't I tell you that if you had faith, you would see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ After the stone had been rolled aside, Jesus looked up toward heaven and prayed, "Father, I thank you for answering my prayer. ⁴² I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so that the people here would believe that you sent me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lazarus: 1 Kings 17:21, 1 Kings 17:22, 2 Kings 4:33-36, Mark 4:41, Luke 7:14, Luke 7:15, Acts 3:6, Acts 3:12, Acts 9:34, Acts 9:40

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:3 - God 2 Kings 4:31 - not awaked 2 Kings 4:35 - and the child opened Nehemiah 9:4 - cried Matthew 8:3 - I will Matthew 11:5 - the dead Mark 5:41 - Damsel Mark 7:34 - Be opened Luke 5:24 - I say Luke 8:54 - Maid Luke 16:31 - neither John 5:21 - even John 11:11 - awake John 11:23 - Thy John 12:2 - Lazarus John 12:9 - General John 12:44 - cried Ephesians 5:14 - arise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had thus spoken,.... To God his Father, in the presence and hearing of the people;

he cried with a loud voice; not on account of the dead, but for the sake of those around him, that all might hear and observe; and chiefly to show his majesty, power and authority, and that what he did was open and above board, and not done by any secret, superstitious, and magical whisper; and as an emblem of the voice and power of his Gospel in quickening dead sinners, and of the voice of the arcangel and trumpet of God, at the general resurrection;

Lazarus come forth; he calls him by his name, not only as being his friend, and known by him, but to distinguish him from any other corpse that might lie interred in the same cave; and he bids him come forth out of the cave, he being quickened and raised immediately by the power which went forth from Christ as soon as ever he lifted up his voice; which showed him to be truly and properly God, and to have an absolute dominion over death and the grave.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A loud voice - Greek, “A great voice.” Syriac: “A high voice.” This was distinctly asserting his power. He uttered a distinct, audible voice, that there might be no suspicion of charm or incantation. The ancient magicians and jugglers performed their wonders by whispering and muttering. See the notes at Isaiah 8:19. Jesus spake openly and audibly, and asserted thus his power. So, also, in the day of judgment he will call the dead with a great sound of a trumpet, Matthew 24:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

Lazarus, come forth! - Here we may remark:

1. That Jesus did this by his own power.

2. The power of raising the dead is the highest of which we can conceive. The ancient pagan declared it to be even beyond the power of God. It implies not merely giving life to the deceased body, but the power of entering the world of spirits, of recalling the departed soul, and of reuniting it with the body. He that could do this must be omniscient as well as omnipotent; and if Jesus did it by his own power, it proves that he was divine.

3. This is a striking illustration of the general resurrection. In the same manner Jesus will raise all the dead. This miracle shows that it is possible; shows the way in which it will be done by the voice of the Son of God; and demonstrates the certainty that he will do it. Oh how important it is that we be prepared for that moment when his voice shall be heard in our silent tombs, and he shall call us forth again to life!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 43. He cried with a loud voice — In John 5:25, our Lord had said, that the time was coming, in which the dead should hear the voice of the Son of God, and live. He now fulfils that prediction, and cries aloud, that the people may take notice, and see that even death is subject to the sovereign command of Christ.

Jesus Christ, says Quesnel, omitted nothing to save this dead person: he underwent the fatigue of a journey, he wept, he prayed, he groaned, he cried with a loud voice, and commanded the dead to come forth. What ought not a minister to do in order to raise a soul, and especially a soul long dead in trespasses and sins!