John 11:5

Contemporary English Version

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and brother.

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.

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

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.

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

¹A man by the name of Lazarus was sick in the village of Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. This was the same Mary who later poured perfume on the Lord's head and wiped his feet with her hair. ³ The sisters sent a message to the Lord and told him that his good friend Lazarus was sick. ⁴ When Jesus heard this, he said, "His sickness won't end in death. It will bring glory to God and his Son." ⁵ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and brother. ⁶ But he stayed where he was for two more days. ⁷ Then he said to his disciples, "Now we will go back to Judea." ⁸ "Teacher," they said, "the people there want to stone you to death! Why do you want to go back?" ⁹ Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours in each day? If you walk during the day, you will have light from the sun, and you won't stumble. ¹⁰ But if you walk during the night, you will stumble, because you don't have any light." ¹¹ Then he told them, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep, and I am going there to wake him up."

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 had more children and died at the age of four hundred thirty-eight.

Genesis 11:14
When Shelah was thirty, he had a son named Eber.

Genesis 11:23
Serug had more children and died at the age of two hundred thirty.

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor was twenty-nine, he had a son named Terah.

Genesis 18:21
Now I am going down to see for myself if those people really are that bad. If they aren't, I want to know about it."

Exodus 3:8
and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Exodus 19:11
and be ready by the day after tomorrow, when I will come down to Mount Sinai, where all of them can see me.

Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had come down in a flaming fire. Smoke poured out of the mountain just like a furnace, and the whole mountain shook.

Exodus 19:20
The Lord came down to the top of Mount Sinai and told Moses to meet him there.

Psalms 11:4
The Lord is sitting in his sacred temple on his throne in heaven. He knows everything we do because he sees us all.

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.