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Joh 11:4. Εἶπεν, He said) It is worthy of being observed, by what method Jesus prepared His disciples, and the sisters of Lazarus and the people, for beholding with profit the greatest of miracles.-αὐτή, this) i.e. This sickness is consonant with love.-πρὸς θάνατον, unto death) whereby [not unto death, in the sense that thereby] the sisters should lose their brother. So the Septuag. εἰς θάνατον, 2Ki 20:1 [i.e. Βασιλ. Δ. Joh 20:1, Hezekiah was sick εἰς θάνατον].-ὑπέρ, for) The glory of God and the glory of the Son of God is one and the same glory.-ἵνα δοξασθῇ, that He may be glorified) The result was truly so. The raising again of Lazarus is so powerful an argument for the truth of Christianity, that Spinoza said, that, if he could believe it, he would cast away his whole system. And yet the following considerations demonstrate the reality of the death and of the resurrection of Lazarus: 1) The deliberate delay of Jesus, who was then at a distance away; 2) His informing His disciples of the death, and foretelling as to the resurrection; 3) The variety and multitude of the witnesses who were present; 4) The faith that followed in consequence, on the part of very many Jews, who were by no means credulous, and the perversity of the rest; Joh 11:46, etc., “They went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done;” [Joh 11:53] “They took counsel together to put Him to death.”-διʼ αὐτῆς, by it) by this sickness Jesus was glorified, inasmuch as many forthwith acknowledged Him as the Son of God; Joh 11:45, “Many which had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on Him;” and the rest of the Jews determined to kill Him, Joh 11:46, etc.; and it was thereby He was about to enter into glory.