KJV King James Version
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
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John 11:44
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
WEB World English Bible
He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
ASV American Standard Version
He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, ‘Loose him, and suffer to go.’
Surrounding context — John 11
41 Then they took away the stone [from the place] where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up [his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
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ἐξῆλθενG1831 · exerchomaito go outὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoτεθνηκὼςG2348 · thnēskōto die/be deadδεδεμένοςG1210 · deōto bindτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoπόδαςG4228 · pousfootκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoχεῖραςG5495 · cheirhandκειρίαις,G2750 · keiriagraveclothesκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoὄψιςG3799 · opsisfaceαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heσουδαρίῳG4676 · soudarionhandkerchiefπεριεδέδετο.G4019 · perideōto wrap aroundλέγειG3004 · legōto sayαὐτοῖςG846 · autosit/s/heὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸησοῦς·G2424 · IēsousJesusλύσατεG3089 · luōto looseαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heκαὶG2532 · kaiandἄφετεG863 · aphiēmito release: leaveαὐτὸνG846 · autosit/s/heὑπάγειν.¶G5217 · hupagōto go
Cross-references
John 5:25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.John 20:7And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.John 11:25-26Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Philippians 3:21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.John 5:21For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.Luke 7:15And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.1 Samuel 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.Acts 20:9-12And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.John 10:30I and [my] Father are one.Genesis 1:3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.John 19:40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.Revelation 1:18[I am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.Psalm 33:9For he spake, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast.Ezekiel 37:3-10And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.Mark 5:43And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.John 11:39Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been [dead] four days.John 20:5And he stooping down, [and looking in], saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
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