John 11:5

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

John 17:26

And I declared your name to them and I will continue to declare it, so that the love you have for me will be in them [also], and that I [will be] in them.”

John 16:27

for the Father Himself loves you [i.e., and will grant your requests without my persuasion], because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 11:36

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

John 11:8

The disciples replied to Him, “The Jews [there] have just been trying to stone you, and you are going back again?”

Luke 10:38

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village [i.e., Bethany. See John 11:1], and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.

Luke 10:40

But Martha was preoccupied with all the preparations [i.e., for entertaining her beloved guest] and came up to Jesus and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Ask her to help me.”

Luke 10:41

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha; you are worried and bothered about [so] many things.

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].

John 11:3

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

John 11:6

So, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was [i.e., on the east side of the Jordan River. See 10:40] for two [more] days.