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Tyndale Open Study Notes on John 11:19

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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11:19 Life in New Testament times was lived publicly. Lazarus’s large extended family, as well as the villagers, had arrived for a seven-day mourning period. To console the sisters in their loss, there was great wailing and crying (see 11:33 and corresponding study note).
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