John 11:19

New American Bible - revised edition

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, he refused all consolation, saying, “No, I will go down mourning to my son in Sheol.” Thus did his father weep for him.

2 Samuel 10:2

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” Therefore David sent his servants to Hanun to console him concerning his father. But when David’s servants had entered the land of the Ammonites,

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their warriors set out, recovered the corpses of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

Job 2:11

Now when three of Job’s friends heard of all the misfortune that had come upon him, they set out each one from his own place: Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuh, and Zophar from Naamath. They met and journeyed together to give him sympathy and comfort.

Job 42:11

Then all his brothers and sisters came to him, and all his former acquaintances, and they dined with him in his house. They consoled and comforted him for all the evil the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Isaiah 51:19

Your misfortunes are double; who is there to grieve with you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword! Who is there to comfort you?

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps incessantly in the night, her cheeks damp with tears. She has no one to comfort her from all her lovers; Her friends have all betrayed her, and become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:21

Hear how I am groaning; there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies hear of my misery and rejoice over what you have done. Bring on the day you proclaimed, and let them become like me!

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is on her skirt; she has no thought of her future. Her downfall is astonishing, with no one to comfort her. “Look, O Lord, at my misery; how the enemy triumphs!”

Lamentations 2:13

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary [who] sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.

Luke 10:42

There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.”

John 1:19

And this is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites [to him] to ask him, “Who are you?”

John 11:1

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

John 11:31

So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

John 11:33

When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled,

John 11:36

So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.”

John 11:45

Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.

John 11:8

The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?”

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

Therefore, console one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do. Church Order.

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.