John 11:7

and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

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KJV

Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.

ASV

Then after this he saith to the disciples, Let us go into Judæa again.

YLT

then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

DBT

Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

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Now when the Lord said: Let us go into Judaea again, He seems almost to declare "Even though the people there are unworthy of kindness, yet now that an opportunity presents itself of conveying them some advantage, let us go back to them;" but the disciples in their love for Him think it right to try to hinder Him, and moreover as men they suppose that He would be unwilling to put Himself in peril by going amongst the Jews.

Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 7, 444patristic

Related commentary

Then after that,.... The next day, the third day after he had heard of Lazarus's sickness: saith he to his disciples, let us go into Judea again; for the country beyond Jordan was distinguished from Judea; See Gill on Mat 4:25.

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

We should notice, in this passage, how mysterious are the ways in which Christ sometimes leads His people. We are told that when He talked of going back to Judea, His disciples were perplexed. It was the very place where the Jews had lately tried to stone their Master—to return there was to plunge into the midst of danger. These timid Galileans could not see the necessity or prudence of such a step. "Are You going there again?" they cried. Things such as these are often going on around us.

J.C. Ryle· Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition), 1869Reformed Evangelical / Low-Church Anglican / Calvinist / 19th-c. Protestant Reformation heir

The conference is so very free and familiar as to make out what Christ saith, I have called you friends. Two things he discourses about--his own danger and Lazarus's death.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

To go to Judea, which was so lately made too hot for them, was a saying that proved them. But Christ did not say, " Go you into Judea, and I will stay and take shelter here;" no, Let us go. Note, Christ never brings his people into any peril but he accompanies them in it, and is with them even when they walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse: and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

Cross-references

6 linked verses

The verses this one reaches6

Acts 20:22–24
And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
Luke 9:51
As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
John 10:40–42
Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.
Acts 15:36
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
Mark 10:1
Then Jesus left that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again the crowds came to Him and He taught them, as was His custom.
John 11:56
They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 15:36
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
leads to
- Acts 14:6
  they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
- Acts 13:4
  So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
- Acts 13:51
  So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
- Acts 14:24–25
  After passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
Through
Luke 9:51
As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
leads to
- Luke 18:31
  Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
- Isaiah 50:5–9
  The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
- Mark 16:19
  After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
- Luke 13:22
  Then Jesus traveled throughout the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way toward Jerusalem.

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