Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 11:19 in context
John 11:16–22
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Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”
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So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
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Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
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Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
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Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
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Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
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