So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
Parallel translations
- WEB The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
- KJV Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
- NKJV Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
- NASB So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
- NLT So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
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The sisters send word to Jesus that the one He loves is sick. They appeal to His affection rather than make a demand.
Overview
Their message expresses trust in Jesus' love and an implicit hope for His help. They do not dictate what He should do but lay the need before Him. Their faith-filled appeal models how believers bring their troubles to Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Heb 12:6–7For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
- Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- John 13:23One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.
- Phil 2:26–27For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
- John 11:11After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
- Gen 22:2“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- John 11:36Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
- 2 Tim 4:20Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.
- Jas 5:14–15Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
- John 11:1At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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