The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 11:36 in context
John 11:33–39
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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,
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and said, “Where have you laid him?”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
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Jesus wept.
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The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
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Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
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Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
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Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
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