...friend !" Says Jesus, " Where have youlaidhim ?" andadvances to the sepulchre. Then she exclaims again, "Lord, by this time he stinketh ; for he hath been dead four days." Now there is something very peculiar in this. It indicates, in the first place, that she believed,...

...persons. which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died ? Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to...stinketh : for he hath been dead four days. Jesus said untq her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of...

...little purpose, and which, should it prove so, she knew would be of the worst consequence, she said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days. So weak and staggering is the faith of even the best persons when any thing seems to them impossible,...

...command them to take away the stone from the mouth of the sepulchre, than she immediately interferes ; " Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days." And she thus draws this gent¡o rebnke from him — " Said I not unto thee, that, if thon wouldest...

...attempting to take away the stone, Martha seems to stagger in the faith which she had formerly expressed. "Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days," nr«;T«i»sy*g ITTI. The word means, that he has been four days in some particular condition, 'without...

...this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died ? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh...the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord,...

...good savour there ? what .were the words of Martha ? homely words, but I dare not withhold them — " Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days :" and there are those, even in this assembly, who have long been very sick, and their sickness hath...

...upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take ye away he stone. Martha, the sister >f him that was dead, saith unto am, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days. 40 Jesus saith unto her. Said 1 not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see theglory...

...the sweet influences of religion, and to find calmness and peace in the God of all consolation. 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to...the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. ' It was a cave. This was a common mode of burial. See note, Matt. viii. 28. 'A stone lay upon it.'...

...and seals and sanctifies the affections of friends. 2d. It is even this man should not have died? 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh...the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take ye away * the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord,...