John 11:3

Plain English Version

so Mary and Martha sent a message to Jesus. They said, “Your good friend Lazarus is very sick.”

Cross References

Genesis 22:2

Then God said, “I know that you love your son Isaac, and he is your only son, but I want you to take him to the country called Moriah, to one of the mountains that I will show you. I want you to kill Isaac for me, and burn his body on a table made of stones, to show me that you respect me.”

Luke 7:13

Jesus saw the mother, and he felt very sorry for her. He told her, “Don’t cry.”

John 11:1

Jesus had a friend called Lazarus, and he lived in a little town in Judea country called Bethany. He lived there with his sisters, Mary and Martha. (Mary was the woman that, later on, rubbed Jesus’s feet with special perfume and wiped them with her hair.) One day, Lazarus got very sick,

John 11:11

Then Jesus said to them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep. I am going to wake him up.”

John 11:21

Martha said, “Sir, you were not here to stop my brother from dying.

John 11:36

The people saw Jesus crying, and some of them said, “Look at him. He really loved his friend.”

John 11:5

Jesus was really good friends with Mary, Martha and Lazarus,

John 13:13

You all call me your teacher, and your leader, and you are right. I am both of those things for you.

John 13:23

There was one follower that Jesus liked a lot, and he was sitting next to Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:20

And I’ll tell you about 2 of the men that were with me. Erastus is not with me now, he stayed in Corinth. And Trofimus was with me at Miletus, but he got sick, so I had to leave him there until he gets better.