John 11:4. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death,-
That was not to be the end of it; God had quite another purpose in view in allowing Lazarus to be sick: "This sickness is not unto death,"-
John 11:4. But for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Jesus knew that Lazarus would die, but he also knew that his death would only be a kind of interlude; the great design of God was not to take Lazarus home at that time, but to glorify his Son in the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead.
John 11:4. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death,-
That was not to be the end of it; God had quite another purpose in view in allowing Lazarus to be sick: "This sickness is not unto death,"-
John 11:4. But for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Jesus knew that Lazarus would die, but he also knew that his death would only be a kind of interlude; the great design of God was not to take Lazarus home at that time, but to glorify his Son in the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead.