John 11:15 (WEB)
I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
Fathers and councils · 15
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Lazarus died: one day had passed, and a second, and a third: his sinews were decayed, and corruption was preying already upon his body.” — editor's note: John xi. 14–44.
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John Chrysostom
““He is dead.”” — editor's note: ver. 13–15. “Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death, but they thought that He had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But if we do not understand the mystery of His tears, hunger, and thirst, let us remember that He Who wept also raised the dead to life: that He did not weep for the death of Lazarus, but rejoiced; that He Who thirsted, gave from Himself rivers of living water.” — editor's note: St. John xi. 15, ‘Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, to the intent that ye may believe.’
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Augustine of Hippo
“…the Gospel that the hard-heartedness of the Jews moved Him to sorrowful indignation, that He said, “I am glad for your sakes, to the intent ye may believe,” that when about to raise Lazarus He even shed tears, that He earnestly desired to eat the passover with His disciples, that as His passion drew near His soul…” — editor's note: John xi. 15.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
After He has comforted His disciples in one way, He comforts them in another, by telling them that they were not going to Jerusalem, but to Bethany: These things saith He: and after that He saith unto them, Our…
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It was really true that He was sleeping. To our Lord, he was sleeping; to men who could not raise him again, he was dead. Our Lord awoke him with as much ease from his grave, as thou awakest a sleeper from his bed.…
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The disciples however wished to prevent Him going to Judæa: Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Sleep is a good sign in sickness. And therefore if he sleep, say they, what need to go and…
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The disciples replied, as they understood Him: Howbeit Jesus spake of his death; but they thought that He had spoken of taking rest in sleep.
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But if any one say, that the disciples could not but have known that our Lord meant Lazarus’s death, when He said, that I may awake him; because it would have been absurd to have gone such a distance merely to awake…
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He then declares His meaning openly: Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
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But He does not add here, I go that I may awake him. He did not wish to anticipate the miracle by talking of it; a hint to us to shun vain glory, and abstain from empty promises.
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He had been sent for to restore Lazarus from sickness, not from death. But how could the death be hid from Him, into whose hands the soul of the dead had flown? And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that…
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Some have understood this place thus. I rejoice, He says, for your sakes; for if I had been there, I should have only cured a sick man; which is but an inferior sign of power. But since in My absence he has died, ye…
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The disciples all dreaded the Jews; and especially Thomas; Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. But he who was now the most weak and…
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The disciples, checked by our Lord’s answer to them, dared no longer oppose; and Thomas, more forward than the rest, says, Let us also go that we may die with him. What an appearance of firmness! He speaks as if he…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 11:11–16 (Catena Aurea).