"And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said {it}, that they may believe that…" — John 11:42

John 11:42 · KJV

“And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said {it}, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.”

— John 11:42

Verse 41

Then they took away the stone {from the place} where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up {his} eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Verse 43

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

John 11 — Context

Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

Then they took away the stone {from the place} where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up {his} eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said {it}, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Cross References

John 3:17

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 17:21

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, {art} in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Hebrews 7:25

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. {to the...: or, evermore}

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son {to be} the Saviour of the world.

Matthew 26:53

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

1 John 4:9-10

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

John 17:8

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received {them}, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 11:22

But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give {it} thee.