John 11:41 (WEB)
So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
Catechism · 1
“The second prayer, before the raising of Lazarus, is recorded by St. John.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 11:41-42.
Fathers and councils · 66
Tertullian
“…Thee that Thou always hearest me; it is because of these crowds that are standing by that I have spoken to Thee, that they may believe that Thou hast sent me.”” — editor's note: John xi. 41, 42.
Read the whole comment“His “Father” He Himself adores.” — editor's note: Matt. xi. 25, 26; Luke x. 21; John xi. 41.
Read the whole comment“What a son asks is ever easily obtained.” — editor's note: Or, “the Son.” Comp. John xi. 41, 42.
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John Damascene
“First He raised up Lazarus, even after he had been dead four days, and was stinking.” — editor's note: St. John xi. 39–44.
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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 Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IX.17Conference IX
“But I knew that Thou hearest Me always.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xi. 25, 26; S. John xi. 41, 42.
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Ambrose of Milan
“We read, they objected, of His uttering a prayer.” — editor's note: S. John xi. 41.
Read the whole comment“For you have it written in the Gospel that the Son says: “Father, I thank Thee that Thou heardest Me.”” — editor's note: S. John xi. 41.
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John Chrysostom
“John xi. 41, 42” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“But Jesus was moved with indignation, and was troubled in spirit, and cried aloud and said, Blæsilla, come forth.” — editor's note: Joh. xi. 38–44.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…Arise;” and when on another occasion He groaned in the spirit, and wept, and again groaned, and then afterwards “cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.”” — editor's note: John xi. 33–44.
Read the whole comment“Read ye the passage itself, and see that He invokes the Father that Lazarus may rise again.” — editor's note: John xi. 41–44.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“He shall hear the words, The Father is greater than I, and I go to the Father, and Father, I thank Thee, and Glorify Me, Father, and Thou art the Son of the living God.” — editor's note: Ib. xi. 41.
Read the whole comment“I hear Him saying, Father, I thank Thee, and Say ye that I blasphemed, because l said, I am the Son of God?” — editor's note: St. John xi. 41.
Read the whole comment“When He was about to restore Lazarus, He prayed to the Father: but what need had He of prayer, Who said, Father, I thank Thee, that Thou hast heard Me; and I know that Thou hearest Me always, but because of the multitude I said it, that they may believe that Thou didst send Me?” — editor's note: St. John xi. 41, 42.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Christ did not answer Mary, as He had her sister, on account of the people present. In condescension to them He humbled Himself, and let His human nature be seen, in order to gain them as witnesses to the miracle:…
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For who but Himself could trouble Him? Christ was troubled, because it pleased Him to be troubled; He hungered, because it pleased Him to hunger. It was in His own power to be affected in this or that way, or not.…
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To prove His human nature He sometimes gives it free vent, while at other times He commands, and restrains it by the power of the Holy Ghost. Our Lord allows His nature to be affected in these ways, both to prove…
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And said, Where have ye laid him? He knew where, but He asked to try the faith of the people.
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He did not wish to thrust the miracle upon them, but to make them ask for it, and thus do away with all suspicions.
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The question has an allusion too to our hidden calling. That predestination by which we are called, is hidden; and the sign of its being so is our Lord asking the question: He being as it were in ignorance, so long…
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He had not yet raised any one from the dead; and seemed as if He came to weep, not to raise to life. Wherefore they say to Him, Come and see.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Lord sees when He pities, as we read, Look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sin. (Ps. 24:18.) Jesus wept.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Because He was the fountain of pity. He wept in His human nature for him whom He was able to raise again by His divine.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Wherefore did Christ weep, but to teach men to weep?
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on John
It is customary to mourn over the death of friends; and thus the Jews explained our Lord’s weeping: Then said the Jews, Behold how He loved him.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Loved him. Our Lord came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. And some of them said, Could not this Man which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? He was…
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It was His enemies who said this. The very works, which should have evidenced His power, they turn against Him, as if He had not really done them. This is the way that they speak of the miracle of opening the eyes of…
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And do thou too groan in thyself, if thou wouldest rise to new life. To every man is this said, who is weighed down by any vicious habit. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. The dead under the stone is the guilty…
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A cave is a hollow in a rock. It is called a monument, because it reminds us of the dead. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone.
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But why did He not raise him without taking away the stone? Could not He who moved a dead body by His voice, much more have moved a stone? He purposely did not do so, in order that the miracle might take place in the…
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Take ye away the stone; mystically, Take away the burden of the law, proclaim grace.
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Perhaps those are signified who wished to impose the rite of circumcision on the Gentile converts; or men in the Church of corrupt life, who offend believers.
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Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, though they had often seen Christ raise the dead, did not fully believe that He could raise their brother; Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by…
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Martha said this from weakness of faith, thinking it impossible that Christ could raise her brother, so long after death.
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Or, these are not words of despair, but of wonder.
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Thus every thing tends to stop the months of the unbelieving. Their hands take away the stone, their ears hear Christ’s voice, their eyes see Lazarus come forth, they perceive the smell of the dead body.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Christ reminds Martha of what He had told her before, which she had forgotten: Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
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She did not remember what He said above, He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. To the disciples He had said, That the Son of God might be glorified thereby; here it is the glory of the…
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Herein is the glory of God, that he that stinketh and hath been dead four days, is brought to life again. Then they took away the stone.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on John
The delay in taking away the stone was caused by the sister of the dead, who said, By this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days. If she had not said this, it would not be said, Jesus said, Take away the…
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Christ, as man, being inferior to the Father, prays to Him for Lazarus’s resurrection; and declares that He is heard: And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me.
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He lifted up His eyes; mystically, He lifted up the human mind by prayer to the Father above. We should pray after Christ’s pattern, Lift up the eyes of our heart, and raise them above present things in memory, in…
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i. e. There is no difference of will between Me and Thee. Thou hast heard Me, does not shew any lack of power in Him, or that He is inferior to the Father. It is a phrase that is used between friends and equals. That…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
He did not therefore need to pray: He prayed for our sakes, that we might know Him to be the Son: But because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me. His prayer did not…
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He did not say, That they may believe that I am inferior to Thee, in that I cannot do this without prayer, but, that Thou hast sent Me. He saith not, hast sent Me weak, acknowledging subjection, doing nothing of…
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Christ went to the grave in which Lazarus slept, as if He were not dead, but alive and able to hear, for He forthwith called him out of his grave: And when He had thus spoken, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus,…
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He does not say, Arise, but, Come forth, speaking to the dead as if he were alive. For which reason also He does not say, Come forth in My Father’s name, or, Father, raise him, but throwing off the whole appearance…
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The voice which roused Lazarus, is the symbol of that trumpet which will sound at the general resurrection. (He spoke loud, to contradict the Gentile fable, that the soul remained in the tomb. The soul of Lazarus is…
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His cry and loud voice it was which awoke him, as Christ had said, I go to awake him. The resurrection of Lazarus is the work of the Father also, in that He heard the prayer of the Son. It is the joint work of Father…
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He came forth bound, that none might suspect that he was a mere phantom. Besides, that this very fact, viz. of coming forth bound, was itself a miracle, as great as the resurrection. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him,…
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Our Lord had said above, Because of the people that stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me. It would have been ignorance of the future, if He had said this, and none believed, after all.…
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Although according to the Gospel history, we hold that Lazarus was really raised to life, yet I doubt not that his resurrection is an allegory as well. We do not, because we allegorize facts, lose our belief in them…
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Every one that sinneth, dies; but God, of His great mercy, raises the soul to life again, and does not suffer it to die eternally. The three miraculous resurrections in the Gospels, I understand to testify the…
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The maiden is restored to life in the house, the young man outside the gate, Lazarus in his grave. She that lies dead in the house, is the sinner lying in sin: he that is carried out by the gate is the openly and…
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Or, it is death within; when the evil thought has not come out into action. But if thou actually do the evil thing, thou hast as it were carried the dead outside the gate.
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And one there is who lies dead in his grave, with a load of earth upon him; i. e. who is weighed down by habits of sin. But the Divine grace has regard even unto such, and enlightens them.
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Or we may take Lazarus in the grave as the soul laden with earthly sins.
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And yet our Lord loved Lazarus. For had He not loved sinners, He would never have come down from heaven to save them. Well is it said of one of sinful habits, that He stinketh. He hath a bad report1 already, as it…
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Well may she say, He hath been dead four days. For the earth is the last of the elements. It signifies the pit of earthly sins, i. e. carnal lusts.
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The Lord groaned, wept, cried with a loud voice. It is hard for Him to arise, who is bowed down with the weight of evil habits. Christ troubleth Himself, to signify to thee that thou shouldest be troubled, when thou…
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Lazarus is bid to come forth, i. e. to come forth and condemn himself with his own mouth, without excuse or reservation: that so he that lies buried in a guilty conscience, may come forth out of himself by confession.
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That Lazarus came forth from the grave, signifies the soul’s deliverance from carnal sins. That he came bound up in grave clothes means, that even we who are delivered from carnal things, and serve with the mind the…
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Or thus: When thou despisest, thou liest dead; when thou confessest, thou comest forth. For what is to come forth, but to go out, as it were, of thy hiding place, and shew thyself? But thou canst not make this…
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Christ awakes, because His power it is which quickens us inwardly: the disciples loose, because by the ministry of the priesthood, they who are quickened are absolved.
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By those who went and told the Pharisees, are meant those who seeing the good works of God’s servants, hate them on that very account, persecute, and calumniate them.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in Origen on John 11:41–46 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2604.
Cited together in Catechism §2604.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.17.