John 11:38 BSB — MannaFest

John 11:38

Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

BSB

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ASV

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

KJV

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

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Commentary

1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

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

Here we understand the groaning as if it were the will struggling with a sort of movement according to its power, both because He rather sternly reproved His grief, and the tears which were about to be shed from His grief. For, as God, He in the way of a master reproves His Manhood, bidding it be manly in sorrowful circumstances; or by His God-befitting movement He distinctly lays it down that we must hence forward overthrow the powerful influence of death.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

It was a cave - So Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their wives, except Rachel, were buried in the cave of Machpelah, Gen. xlix, 29-31. These caves were commonly in rocks, which abounded in that country, either hollowed by nature or hewn by art. And the entrance was shut up with a great stone, which sometimes had a monumental inscription.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

It was a cave, etc. - It is likely that several of the Jewish burying-places were made in the sides of rocks; some were probably dug down like a well from the upper surface, and then hollowed under into niches, and a flat stone, laid down upon the top, would serve for a door. Yet, from what the evangelist says, there seems to have been something peculiar in the formation of this tomb.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

These verses record one of the greatest miracles the Lord Jesus Christ ever worked, and supply an unanswerable proof of His divinity. He whose voice could bring back from the grave one that had been four days dead, must indeed have been very God! The miracle itself is described in such simple language that no human comment can throw light upon it. But the sayings of our Lord on this occasion are peculiarly interesting, and demand special notice. We should mark, first, our Lord's words about the STONE which lay upon the grave of Lazarus.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
πάλιν	palin	again	G3825 →
ἐμβριμώμενος	embrimōmenos	being deeply moved	G1690 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἑαυτῷ	he'autō	Himself	G1438 →
ἔρχεται	erchetai	He comes	G2064 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μνημεῖον·	mnēmeion	tomb;	G3419 →
ἦν	ēn	It was	G1510 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
σπήλαιον,	spēlaion	a cave,	G4693 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λίθος	lithos	a stone	G3037 →
ἐπέκειτο	epekeito	was lying	G1945 →
ἐπ᾽	ep᾽	against	G1909 →
αὐτῷ.	autō	it.	G846 →

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 27:60
and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
leads to
- Matthew 28:2
  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 53:9
  He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Through
John 11:33
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
leads to
- John 12:27
  Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- Mark 3:5
  Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
- Romans 12:15
  Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
- Genesis 43:30–31
  Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
- Genesis 45:1–5
  Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his…
Through
Isaiah 22:16
What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
leads to
- Matthew 27:60
  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.