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John 11:3
John 11:3 is verse 3 of John chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
King James Version
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
World English Bible
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
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John 11:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 11:1At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 13:23One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.
Genesis 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.”
Psalms 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Philippians 2:26For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
Philippians 2:27He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
2 Timothy 4:20Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.
Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Hebrews 12:7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
James 5:14Is 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.
James 5:15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.