John Chapter 11

[Ninna]

Okay, ladies, we will start! I love this chapter (I love all of them) because it shows Jesus' affection for His friends and His awesome power.

NKJV John 11

1) Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

2) It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

3) Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

I want to add what my Bible Reader's Companion by Lawrence O. Richard, says about this verse - "It's easy to pray when we or a loved one first becomes sick. We believe firmly that Jesus does love us. The problem comes when there seems to be no response from God...." This chapter shows me the love of Jesus and that His timing is not my timing, but He is always on time!

4) When Jesus heard that, He said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Jesus was showing the power of God, that people might believe and that all glory is to God. IMHO, when God heals is to His glory and not that we or doctors, etc., are glorified.

Love you, my sisters.

[qbee]

Yes, Jesus waited for the appointed time so that all glory would go to God.
What makes this revelant is .. I have learned that the Jewish people at that
time believed that a soul could return to it body within a certain time after
death .. Jesus purposely waited so that they couldnt declare that is what
happened .. He could have healed Lazurus instanly right where he was.

Jesus chose to wait and come to them at the appropriate time so that the
glory of God would be proclaimed and they would believe and trust in what
he taught them... and give all glory to God ..

[KingdomBound]

This chapter shows me the love of Jesus and that His timing is not my timing, but He is always on time!

Amen and amen!!

[trinity]

Amen and amen!!

So true, sometimes God says "No" when there's something far better waiting for you if you just learn to wait on Him. If our prayers for the sick were answered immediately & with a "Yes" each & every time it would be human nature to take the credit. Sometimes he lets us go thru this just so that we learn how dependent we are on Him, we have to humble ourselves (which is seldom easy ) & say Lord I can't do this on my own strength anymore please take control of this situation, "in my weakness Your strength is made perfect"!!

[karenoka27]

Can anyone join this study?

Whenever I talk with someone about prayer...I always say, "Pray and Watch"
When we pray, we are done..in the sense that is all we can do, now we watch what God will do..it is so amazing to watch our living God at work..the more you watch for Him to answer prayer and the more you see Him work..the more you learn to wait on Him when He doesn't answer in the time frame we think He should..we truly serve an amazing God!

[Ninna]

Can anyone join this study?

Please do! I have been praying that others will join us and help us learn more and more as we seek the Lord! I am thrilled to see your input and Mickie, Trinity, and Claudia's too!

[Debra R]

Please do! I have been praying that others will join us and help us learn more and more as we seek the Lord! I am thrilled to see your input and Mickie, Trinity, and Claudia's too!

Me too!! Good to see you all!

And thank you Brenda.

And I pray that Mieke feels well enough soon to join us again on this chapter too.

Blessings
Love,
Deb

[Debra R]

Okay, ladies, we will start! I love this chapter (I love all of them) because it shows Jesus' affection for His friends and His awesome power.

Amen!

NKJV John 11

1) Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

2) It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

3) Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

I want to add what my Bible Reader's Companion by Lawrence O. Richard, says about this verse - "It's easy to pray when we or a loved one first becomes sick. We believe firmly that Jesus does love us. The problem comes when there seems to be no response from God...." This chapter shows me the love of Jesus and that His timing is not my timing, but He is always on time!

Yes He is, always on time.

I think too that problems come when you have had a response from God in the beginning and then He seeems to be silent for a time, Or rather He is not working as you think He should be working. Or healing as quickly as you would like Him too. But His timing is the perfect timing. For who are we to question Him or tell Him how to run things .

Jesus sees and knows the big picture, He knows the beginning and the end. There are many ways He works through the suffering to bring God's glory.
Many times through this with Nathaniel I have seen God's glory in the little things. To see His touch in the little things means so much. I thank Him for letting me see that and to know that He is there. And I am realizing more and more how God does use the doctors and nurses and medicines to bring healing. For He is the one who gives them the knowledge to do what they do. He is incredibly awesome.

4) When Jesus heard that, He said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Jesus was showing the power of God, that people might believe and that all glory is to God. IMHO, when God heals is to His glory and not that we or doctors, etc., are glorified.

Love you, my sisters.

Love you too my sister.

[Debra R]

(NASB) John 11:3) So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

Mary and Martha knew that Jesus loved Lazarus so they sent for Him and they knew that because of His love that Jesus would come.

4) But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

Jesus said that this sickness would not end in death but that it would be for the glory of God, that Jesus would be gorified. That those around Jesus would come to know Him in an even greater way and there would be more who would see His glory.

5) Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Jesus loved them. How sweet those words that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. That Jesus loves us. That Jesus loves those whom we love too. As much as we love our family Jesus loves them even more.

6) So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

Can you imagine what they were thinking? Why is Jesus not coming? Why is He taking so long? Do you think they doubted His love then? Do you think they began to wonder if He really cared? Don't we also think those same things?

But Jesus loved Lazarus. And Jesus cared. He was in control. And when it was the right time, He came.

[Ninna]

Hi Debra! You are so right, Jesus cares and when it is the right time, He comes!

And I pray that Mieke feels well enough soon to join us again on this chapter too

Me too! I love Mieke's commentaries.

Let's move to a few more verses. Anyone who is joining us, please feel free to move back at any time on any verse.

NKJ John 11

7) Then after this He said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

8) The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?"

9) Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10) But if one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him."

The disciples thought that Jesus would be killed if He went to Judea. They had no idea of God's plan and timing.

Jesus is the light of the world and He was going into Judea so that some might believe and follow Him.

[Debra R]

I thought I should share how we have been going through the chapters of John.

We started on chapter one in June of 2004. (Momof5 looked it up to see when we started, I had forgotten.) P.P.P. started the first chapter so we have her to thank for getting us going.

I hadn't realized it had taken us that long to get this far. But we all have had so much going on in our lives. But still keep going on. We may be slow but it has been fun.

We usually take a few verses at a time and add thoughts, commentaries, whatever we feel led, and just go through the whole chapter. So if you feel led to post the next set of verses or even go back and add to previous verses please feel free.

We just share what we have learned, what we perceive and what our understanding is. Our goal is to grow closer with the Lord and know Him more.


Blessings

Love,
Deb

[Debra R]

John 11:9) Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10) But if one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him."

The disciples thought that Jesus would be killed if He went to Judea. They had no idea of God's plan and timing.

Jesus is the light of the world and He was going into Judea so that some might believe and follow Him.

The Adam Clarke Commentary

Verse 9. Are there not twelve hours in the day?
The Jews, as well as most other nations, divided the day, from sun-rising to sun-setting, into twelve equal parts; but these parts, or hours, were longer or shorter, according to the different seasons of the year.

Our Lord alludes to the case of a traveller, who has to walk the whole day: the day points out the time of life-the night that of death. He has already used the same mode of speech, John 9:4: I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.

Here he refers to what the apostles had just said-The Jews were but just now going to stone thee. Are there not, said he, twelve hours in the day? I have not travelled these twelve hours yet-my last hour is not yet come; and the Jews, with all their malice and hatred, shall not be able to bring it a moment sooner than God has purposed.

I am immortal till my work is done; and this, that I am now going to Bethany to perform, is a part of it. When all is completed, then their hour, and that of the power of darkness, shall commence.

If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not
A traveller should use the day to walk in, and not the night. During the day he has the sun, the light of this world: he sees his way, and does not stumble: but, if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in it, John 11:10; i.e. there is no sun above the horizon. The words εναυτω, John 11:10, refer not to the man, but to the world, the sun, its light, not being above the horizon.


Life is the time to fulfil the will of God, and to prepare for glory. Jesus is the light of the world; he that walks in his Spirit, and by his direction, cannot stumble-cannot fall into sin, nor be surprised by an unexpected death.


But he who walks in the night, in the darkness of his own heart, and according to the maxims of this dark world, he stumbles-falls into sin, and at last falls into hell. Reader! do not dream of walking to heaven in the night of thy death. God has given thee the warning: receive it, and begin to live to him, and for eternity.

[Debra R]

I have to work today, still making up hours.


But I wanted to post a few more verses.......

(NKJ) John 11:11) These things He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up."

12) Then His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps he will get well."

13) However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

14 ) Then Jesus said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.

15) And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him."

See you all later.
Have a very blessed day,
in Christ's love ,
Deb

[Ninna]

Good morning.

15) And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him."

Jesus was glad for the opportunity for the disciples' faith to grow.

I am going to add one more verse to these:

16) Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him."

The annotation in my Bible was interesting in that it said Thomas had the twins of belief and unbelief and combined devotion to Jesus and a tendency to see the dark side of things. With all that, he followed anyway out of loyalty to Jesus.

[Debra R]

Good morning.


I am going to add one more verse to these:

16) Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him."

The annotation in my Bible was interesting in that it said Thomas had the twins of belief and unbelief and combined devotion to Jesus and a tendency to see the dark side of things. With all that, he followed anyway out of loyalty to Jesus.

Thank you for that Brenda, I have to confess I am a lot like Thomas.
I tend to see the dark side of things. I wish I could stop doing that.

And I had related a lot with Thomas in this scripture....

John 20:24) Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

25) The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."

That was so much like me.

26) And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!"

27) Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing."

28) And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

I had broke down and cried when I first read that scripture and realized that was how I had been. And I had cried remembering all the things He had done to make me see. And for how much He loved me.


How awesome is His love.

Blessings