John 11:20 BSB — MannaFest

John 11:20

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.

KJV

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

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Commentary

3 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 7 (Fragments) (444)

Perhaps Martha was the more eager to do such things as might be necessary; wherefore also she first went and met Him: but Mary was the more intelligent. Wherefore, as possessing a more sensitive soul, she remained at home, receiving the attentions of her consoling friends; but Martha, as a simpler person, started off, intoxicated indeed with her grief, but nevertheless acting with more vigour.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

She waived all ceremony and compliment to the Jews who came to visit her, and hastened to go and meet Jesus. Note, When God by his grace or providence is coming towards us in ways of mercy and comfort, we should go forth by faith, hope, and prayer to meet him.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Martha - went and met him - Some suppose she was the eldest of the two sisters - she seems to have had the management of the house. See Luk 10:40. Mary sat still in the house - It is likely that by this circumstance the evangelist intended to convey the idea of her sorrow and distress; because anciently afflicted persons were accustomed to put themselves in this posture, as expressive of their distress; their grief having rendered them as it were immovable. See Ezr 9:3, Ezr 9:4; Neh 1:4; Psa 137:1; Isa 47:1; Luk 1:79; and Mat 27:61.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἡ	Hē	<the>	G3588 →
οὖν	oun	Therefore	G3767 →
Μάρθα,	Martha	Martha,	G3136 →
ὡς	hōs	when	G5613 →
ἤκουσεν	ēkousen	she heard	G191 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ἔρχεται,	erchetai	is coming,	G2064 →
ὑπήντησεν	hupēntēsen	met	G5221 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	with Him;	G846 →
Μαριὰμ	Mariam	Mary	G3137 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
οἴκῳ	oikō	house	G3624 →
ἐκαθέζετο.	ekathezeto	was sitting.	G2516 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Matthew 25:1
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
leads to
- Luke 12:35–36
  Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- Matthew 24:42–51
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
- Revelation 19:7
  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Philippians 2:15–16
  so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- Revelation 21:9
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Through
1 Thessalonians 4:17
After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:52
  in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
- Revelation 11:12
  And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.
- John 14:3
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.