Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

17 So when he[a] arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb. 18 (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.[b] 19 So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their[c] brother.)

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Footnotes

  1. John 11:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrived”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 11:18 A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)
  3. John 11:19 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun