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Literal Standard Version

John 11:28

And having said these things, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, "The Teacher is present, and calls you";

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condolence;   Friendship;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Readings, Select;   Sorrow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bringing Men to Jesus;   Dead, the;   Miracles;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Women;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lazarus;   Martha;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lazarus;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel of;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dominion (2);   Ideas (Leading);   Martha ;   Mary;   Master ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lazarus ;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus and Martha;   New Testament;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - master, the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethany;   Miracle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Martha;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
King James Version (1611)
And when shee had so said, shee went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
King James Version
And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
English Standard Version
When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
New American Standard Bible
When she had said this, she left and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
New Century Version
After Martha said this, she went back and talked to her sister Mary alone. Martha said, "The Teacher is here and he is asking for you."
Amplified Bible
After she had said this, she left and called her sister Mary, privately whispering [to her], "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
Legacy Standard Bible
And when she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
Berean Standard Bible
After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
Contemporary English Version
After Martha said this, she went and privately said to her sister Mary, "The Teacher is here, and he wants to see you."
Complete Jewish Bible
After saying this, she went off and secretly called Miryam, her sister: "The Rabbi is here and is calling for you."
Darby Translation
And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
After Martha said these things, she went back to her sister Mary. She talked to Mary alone and said, "The Teacher is here. He is asking for you."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when she had so saide, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
George Lamsa Translation
And when she had said these things, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, and said to her, Our teacher has come, and he is calling you.
Good News Translation
After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. "The Teacher is here," she told her, "and is asking for you."
Lexham English Bible
And when she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
Literal Translation
And saying these things, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and calls you.
American Standard Version
And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee.
Bible in Basic English
And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.
Hebrew Names Version
When she had said this, she went away, and called Miryam, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
International Standard Version
When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"
Etheridge Translation
And when she had said these, she went, called Mariam her sister in secret, and said to her, Our Master hath come, and calleth for thee.
Murdock Translation
And when she had thus said, she went and called her sister Mary, secretly, and said to her: Our Rabbi hath come, and calleth for thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And assoone as she had so sayde, she went her way, and called Marie her sister secretely, saying: The Maister is come, and calleth for thee.
English Revised Version
And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is here, and calleth thee.
World English Bible
When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Having said this, she went and privately called Mary her sister, saying, The master is come, and calleth for thee.
Weymouth's New Testament
After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne sche hadde seid this thing, sche wente, and clepide Marie, hir sistir, in silence, and seide, The maister cometh, and clepith thee.
Update Bible Version
And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calls you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when she had so said, she went and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
New English Translation
And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
New King James Version
And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, "The Teacher has come and is calling for you."
New Living Translation
Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, "The Teacher is here and wants to see you."
New Life Bible
After Martha said this, she went and called her sister Mary. She said without anyone else hearing, "The Teacher is here and has sent for you."
New Revised Standard
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And this saying, she went away, and called Mary her sister, secretly, saying - The teacher, is present, and calleth thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee.
Revised Standard Version
When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying quietly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And assone as she had so sayde she went her waye and called Marie her sister secretly sayinge: The master is come and calleth for the
Young's Literal Translation
And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha she had sayde this, she wete hir waye, & called Mary hir sister secretly, & saide: The maister is come, & calleth for the.
Mace New Testament (1729)
When she had said this, she went privately to call Mary her sister, saying, the master is come, and calls for you.
THE MESSAGE
After saying this, she went to her sister Mary and whispered in her ear, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then she went back in the house and told her sister that Jesus had arrived and he wanted to see her.

Contextual Overview

17Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having already been four days in the tomb. 18And Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother; 20Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus comes, met Him, and Mary kept sitting in the house. 21Martha, therefore, said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother had not died; 22but even now, I have known that whatever You may ask of God, God will give to You"; 23Jesus says to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24Martha says to Him, "I have known that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day"; 25Jesus said to her, "I AM the resurrection, and the life; he who is believing in Me, even if he may die, will live; 26and everyone who is living and believing in Me will not die—throughout the age;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and called: John 11:20, John 1:41, John 1:45, John 21:7, Zechariah 3:10, Luke 10:38-42, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Hebrews 12:12

The Master: John 13:13, John 20:16

come: John 10:3, Song of Solomon 2:8-14, Mark 10:49

Reciprocal: Habakkuk 2:2 - make Matthew 26:18 - The Master Mark 5:35 - the Master Mark 14:14 - The Master Luke 22:11 - The Master John 12:3 - took

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
Genesis 11:4
And they say, "Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:31
And Terah takes his son Abram, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, wife of his son Abram, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to Haran, and dwell there.
Genesis 15:7
And He says to him, "I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it";
Nehemiah 9:7
You [are] He, O YHWH God, || Who fixed on Abraham, || And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldeans, || And made his name Abraham,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when she had so said,.... Had expressed her faith in Christ in such terms, as the apostles themselves did, Matthew 16:16 John 1:49.

She went her way; from Christ, being ordered by him to go to her sister Mary, and fetch her to him:

and called Mary her sister secretly; either beckoned her to come to her, or whispered her in the ear privately, as Nonnus paraphrases it, that the Jews, who were enemies to Christ, might not hear:

saying, the master is come; near the town; is not a great way off: she might use the phrase, "the master", for greater privacy, that should she be overheard, it would not be who she meant; and because it was an usual appellation by which Christ was called in that family, and by which he was well known; and was expressive of honour to him, and subjection in them as his disciples:

and calleth for thee; to come to him; Christ asked after her, desired to see her, and ordered her to come to him; which was an instance of his respect for her.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

She went her way - Jesus probably directed her to go, though the evangelist has not recorded it, for she said to Mary, The Master calleth for thee.

Secretly - Privately. So that the others did not hear her. This was done, perhaps, to avoid confusion, or because it was probable that if they knew Jesus was coming they would have made opposition. Perhaps she doubted whether Jesus desired it to be known that he had come.

The Master is come - This appears to have been the appellation by which he was known to the family. It means, literally, teacher, and was a title which he claimed for himself. “One is your Master, even Christ” Matthew 23:8, Matthew 23:10. The Syriac has it, “Our Master.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. The Master is come — This was the appellation which he had in the family; and from these words it appears that Christ had inquired for Mary, desiring to have her present, that he might strengthen her faith, previously to his raising her brother.


 
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