John Chapter 11 verse 36 Holy Bible
The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
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So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!
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The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
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Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
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The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"
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The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 36, 37. - The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him! But some of them said, Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that this man also should not die? The effect upon the Ἰουδαῖοι differs here, as always; but if (πολλοὶ, ver. 45) many were favorably impressed, we may believe here that the πολλοὶ said one to another with genuine emotion, "Behold how he loved him!" (ἐφίλει, not ἠγάπα; amabat, not diligebat). Tears are often the expression of love as well as grief. Hengstenberg sees in the cry of the better class of these Jews, "How has he then let him die?" probably he could not have helped him if he would. In the language of the other Jews there was the suggestion of inability, and the ironical hint that the cure of the blind man, which had created so great a commotion, was only a delusion. Perhaps, too, a covert expectation of some further display of wonder-working power. Strauss regards it as unhistorical that the previous restorations from the dead should not be cited. But surely, when John wrote this Gospel, the story of the widow's son and of Jairus's daughter was known throughout the world. And if, in the middle of the second century, this Gospel had been written by a speculative theologian, who deliberately set himself to concoct such a narrative as this, with the view of completing the picture of the Vanquisher of Hades, he would most certainly have cited the Galilaean miracles. John, however, is merely recording his own experiences. These Jews at that time may never have heard of either Nain or the daughter of Jairus, and spoke merely of that which was within their own recollection and experience. As they stand here, these words are striking testimony to their historical validity. The Gospel which most unequivocally establishes the claim of our Lord to a Divine Personality or subsistence, is more explicit than any of them in asserting his pure humanity, and giving proofs of it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(36) Then said the Jews--i.e., part of them. (See the next verse.) The term "Jews" is repeated with a frequency (John 11:31; John 11:33) which makes prominent their hostile position.Behold how he loved him!--Or, more exactly, how He used to love him. The word used is the strong word for love which the sisters had themselves used in John 11:3. "How He must have loved him," they think, "during his life, if He thus sheds tears for him after his death!"
