John 11:3

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, the sisters sent [someone] to Him, saying, “Look, Lord, the person you love [i.e., your dear friend, Lazarus] is sick.”

Cross References

John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister [Mary] and [her brother] Lazarus.

Revelation 3:19

“I rebuke and discipline those I love, so be earnest and repent.

2 Timothy 4:20

Erastus stayed on at Corinth, but I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.

John 13:23

One of Jesus’ disciples, [the one] He loved [Note: Probably this was the apostle John] was reclining at the dinner table close to Jesus.

John 11:36

[Some of] the Jewish friends then said, “Look how [much] he loved him!” [See verse 3].

John 11:11

After saying these things He said to His disciples, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up.”

John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus, from Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. [See 11:18].

Luke 7:13

Now when the Lord saw her, He felt very sorry for her and said to her, “Do not cry.”

John 11:2

This was the Mary who had poured the perfume on the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair [See Matt. 26:6-13], whose brother Lazarus was sick.

John 11:21

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if [only] you had been here, my brother would not have died.

John 13:13

You call me ‘Teacher,’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right in doing so because that is who I am.