John 11:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

2 Samuel 10:2

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

1 Chronicles 10:12

All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days.

Job 2:11

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

Job 42:11

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

Lamentations 1:2

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

Lamentations 1:21

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

Lamentations 1:9

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

Lamentations 2:13

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

Luke 10:39

And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.

Luke 10:42

Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

John 1:19

And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

John 11:31

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

John 11:33

And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,

John 11:36

So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

John 11:45

Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

John 11:8

The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

Romans 12:15

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

2 Corinthians 1:4

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

So then, give comfort to one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

1 Samuel 31:13

And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.