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Joh 11:4 King James When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death--to result in death.

but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby--that is, by this glory of God. (See Greek.) Remarkable language this, which from creature lips would have been intolerable. It means that the glory of GOD manifested in the resurrection of dead Lazarus would be shown to be the glory, personally and immediately, of THE SON.
 
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3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.