Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
- BSB Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
- NKJV Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
- NASB So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, *came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
- NLT Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
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Quick answer
Again deeply moved, Jesus approaches the cave-tomb sealed with a stone. The setting underscores the finality of death.
Overview
Jesus' renewed groaning shows his continued emotional engagement as he nears the grave. The description of a cave with a stone emphasizes the reality and apparent permanence of Lazarus' death. This detail magnifies the miracle to come and foreshadows Jesus' own stone-sealed tomb.
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- John 11:33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
- Luke 24:2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
- Matt 27:60And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
- Gen 23:19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
- Isa 22:16What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
- Mark 15:46And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
- John 20:1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
- Mark 8:12And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
- Ezek 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
- Matt 27:66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
- Ezek 21:6Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
- Gen 49:29–31And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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