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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[His] disciples said unto him, master,.... Addressing him very reverently, and with great concern for his safety, as well as their own: the Jews of late, or but now, sought to stone thee; as they had attempted to do twice in a very little time; see John 8:59; and goest thou thither again? where there are so many enemies; and so much danger, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day?.... So the Jews reckoned, and so they commonly say (a), שעות הוי היום שתים עשרה, "twelve hours are a day", or a day consists of twelve hours, which they divided into four parts, each part consisting of three hours this was a matter well known, and Christ puts the question as such, it being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? Is there not a time in which the sun will not go down — in which it is safe and right for men to work?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. There is a singular turn, is there not, in that expression? We expected it to be “Because he seeth not the light of the world,” instead of which the Saviour says, “Because there is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if a man walk in the night,.... After the sun is set, and there is no light in the air and heavens to direct him: he stumbleth; at everything that lies in the way, because there is no light in him; there being none from above communicated to him. So our Lord suggests, that when the time of his death was come, he should then fall a prey into...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things said he,.... In answer to his disciples, and made a pause. And after that he saith unto them, our friend Lazarus sleepeth; meaning, that he was dead; in which sense the word is often used in the Old Testament, and in the common dialect of the Jews, and frequently in their writings; and especially it is so used of good men: and it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. It is the Saviour’s way to use terms concerning his miracles, which, so far from exaggerating them, even appear to depreciate them. He is about to raise a man from the dead, but he says, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;- “Our friend.” Why, Lazarus was Christ’s friend. Yes; but those who are Christ’s friends are our friends too if we belong to Christ. I have recently met with a large number of persons from different countries; but, the moment we discovered that we loved the same...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. Let me remind you, my dear brethren who preach the gospel, that you will have to preach very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep,.... Soundly, quietly, and comfortably, and takes rest in it: he shall do well; or "be saved" from the disease; he will be delivered from it; he will recover out of it; it is a sign the distemper is leaving him, and he is growing better, and will be restored to his health again: the Ethiopic version...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. It is considered to be a sign of getting better when a patient can sleep.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death,.... Under the figurative phrase of sleeping: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep; in a literal and natural sense.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said Jesus unto them plainly,.... Without a figure, when he perceived they did not understand him, and yet it was a very easy and usual metaphor which he had made use of; but such was the present stupidity of their minds, that they did not take in his meaning: wherefore, without reproaching them with it, he said to them in so many words,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,.... At Bethany, before he died, or when he died; because he might have been prevailed upon through the solicitations of his dear friends, Mary and Martha, and through tender affection to Lazarus, to have prevented his death, by rebuking the distemper, and restoring him to health, or to have raised...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe, nevertheless let us go unto him. Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. Thomas always took a dark view of things, so he thought his Master was going to be killed; but he was a brave disciple, for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said Thomas, who is called Didymous,.... The former was his Hebrew name, and the latter his Greek name, and both signify a twin; and perhaps he may be so called because he was one: the same said unto his fellow disciples; the other eleven; though the Ethiopic version reads, "to the next of the disciples"; as if he addressed himself only to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then when Jesus came,.... The Alexandrian copy, and all the Oriental versions add, "to Bethany"; though it seems by what follows, that he was not come to the town itself, but near it; and it looks as if it was not far from Lazarus's grave; and it was usual to bury without the city; and here he had intelligence of his, Lazarus's, death, and how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. So that he was probably dead as soon as the messengers arrived to tell the Saviour that he was ill.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. You know that, in the East, they have to bury the dead almost immediately because of the heat of the climate; so that Lazarus was, not long after he was dead, put away in the family vault.