stration of joy. Here, on the contrary, every token of sympathy and respect seems to have been shown.
To Martha and Mary (pos tas ep) MapSav cai Mapiar). Lit., to those about Martha and Mary ; a Greek idiom for Martha and Mary and their companions, or attendants. Com- pare of rept tov Ilatdov, Paul and his companions (Acts xiii. 13). Somewhat analogous is our familiar idiom when we speak of going to visit a household: Z am going to Smth’s or Brown’s, by which we include the head of the household with its members. Westcott and Hort and Tregelles, however, read apos THY Mdp9av «. M., to Martha and Mary. So also the Revisers’ text.
20. That Jesus was coming (6rz 6 Inaods épxerar). Lit., ts coming. The exact words of the message: Jesus 28 coming.
Went and met (v7jvrncev). The verb means to go to meet.
22. Wilt ask of God (airnon tov Oedv). The verb airéw is used of the asking of an inferior from a superior. “Epwtdw is to ask on equal terms, and hence is always used by Christ of His own asking from the Father, in the consciousness of His equal dignity. Hence Martha, as Trench observes, “ plainly reveals her poor, unworthy conception of His person, that she recognizes in Him no more than a prophet, when she ascribes that asking (aire?odar) to Him which He never ascribes to Himself” (“Synonyms”). Bengel says: ‘Martha did not speak in Greek, yet John expresses her inaccurate remark, which the Lord kindly tolerated.” See on Matt. xv. 23.
24. In the resurrection. Wyc., the again rising.
25. 1am the resurrection and the life. The words J am are very significant. Martha had stated the resurrection rather as @ doctrine, @ current tenet: Jesus states it as a fact, iden- tified with His own person. He does not say, J raise the dead ; I perform the resurrection, but I am the resurrection. In His