John 4:40

4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

John 11:6

11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

John 12:1

Jesus’ Anointing

12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.


tn Following the arrival of the Samaritans, the imperfect verb has been translated as ingressive.

tn Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the sequencing with the following verse, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

tn Grk “that he”; the referent (Lazarus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Grk “whom Jesus,” but a repetition of the proper name (Jesus) here would be redundant in the English clause structure, so the pronoun (“he”) is substituted in the translation.