Giovanni 11:14

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14 Allora adunque Gesù disse loro apertamente: Lazaro è morto.

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Giovanni 11:14 Meaning and Commentary

John 11:14

Then said Jesus unto them plainly
Without a figure, when he perceived they did not understand him, and yet it was a very easy and usual metaphor which he had made use of; but such was the present stupidity of their minds, that they did not take in his meaning: wherefore, without reproaching them with it, he said to them in so many words,

Lazarus is dead.
The Persic version reads, "Lazarus is dead indeed", as he really was.

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Giovanni 11:14 In-Context

12 Laonde i suoi discepoli dissero: Signore, se egli dorme, sarà salvo.
13 Or Gesù avea detto della morte di esso; ma essi pensavano ch’egli avesse detto del dormir del sonno.
14 Allora adunque Gesù disse loro apertamente: Lazaro è morto.
15 E per voi, io mi rallegro che io non v’era, acciocchè crediate; ma andiamo a lui.
16 Laonde Toma, detto Didimo, disse a’ discepoli, suoi compagni: Andiamo ancor noi, acciocchè muoiamo con lui.
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