John 11:43

43 And [when he] had said these [things], he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

John 11:43 Meaning and Commentary

John 11:43

And when he had thus spoken
To God his Father, in the presence and hearing of the people;

he cried with a loud voice;
not on account of the dead, but for the sake of those around him, that all might hear and observe; and chiefly to show his majesty, power and authority, and that what he did was open and above board, and not done by any secret, superstitious, and magical whisper; and as an emblem of the voice and power of his Gospel in quickening dead sinners, and of the voice of the arcangel and trumpet of God, at the general resurrection;

Lazarus come forth;
he calls him by his name, not only as being his friend, and known by him, but to distinguish him from any other corpse that might lie interred in the same cave; and he bids him come forth out of the cave, he being quickened and raised immediately by the power which went forth from Christ as soon as ever he lifted up his voice; which showed him to be truly and properly God, and to have an absolute dominion over death and the grave.

John 11:43 In-Context

41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes above and said, "Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me.

42 And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said [it], so that they may believe that you sent me."

43 And [when he] had said these [things], he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

44 The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

45 Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw [the things] which he did believed in him.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal