KJV King James Version
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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John 11:3
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
WEB World English Bible
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
ASV American Standard Version
The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, ‘Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;’
Surrounding context — John 11
1 Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 When Jesus heard [that], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
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Original-language word links
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ἀπέστειλανG649 · apostellōto sendοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenαἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀδελφαὶG79 · adelphēsisterπρὸςG4314 · prosto/withαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heλέγουσαι·G3004 · legōto sayκύριε,G2962 · kurioslord: GodἴδεG2396 · idelook!ὃνG3739 · hos, hēwhichφιλεῖςG5368 · phileōto loveἀσθενεῖ.¶G770 · astheneōbe weak: weak
Cross-references
John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.Hebrews 12:6-7For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.John 13:23Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.Psalm 16:3[But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.Philippians 2:26-27For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.John 11:36Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!2 Timothy 4:20Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.Genesis 22:2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.John 11:11These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.John 11:1Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.James 5:14-15Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
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