John Chapter 11 verse 3 Holy Bible
The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."
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therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Therefore the sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick (ο{ν φιλεῖς nominative to ἀσθενεῖ). The sisters knew well what peril Jesus and his disciples would encounter by coming to Bethany, and they must have known that he could have healed him by a word; so they simply state the case. (On the difference between φιλεῖν and ἀγάπαν, see notes on John 5:20; 21:15, 17. Trench, 'New Test. Syn.,' § 12. The former word is that of personal affection and fondness, though occasion ally having grander associations and equivalent to amo, while ἀγαπάω is equivalent to diligo, and means the love of choice, of sentiment, of confidence and esteem.) There is delicate tact and beauty in the use of the two words, one by the sisters, the other by the evangelist. The statement of needs, the simple voice of our weakness, the infant's cry, goes up to heaven. The bleat of the lost lamb is enough for the good Shepherd.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Therefore his sisters sent unto him.--Better, The sisters therefore sent unto Him--i.e., because of the fact of the illness, which has been repeated at the close of the last verse, and also because of the intimacy between our Lord and this family, of which the anointing was a proof. (Comp. John 11:5.)Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.--The words are given in the touching simplicity of the message just as they were sent by the sorrowing sisters. They feel that the sad news needs no addition, and that there is no necessity for a prayer for help. Weakness, conscious of strength which loves, needs but to utter itself. (Comp. John 11:21.)
