(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) So the sisters sent word[a] to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick.” And when he[b] heard it,[c] Jesus said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 11:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. John 11:4 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  3. John 11:4 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation