Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Then after this (epeita meta touto). Epeita (only here in John) means thereafter (Luke 16:7) and it is made plainer by the addition of meta touto (cf. John 2:12; John 11:11), meaning after the two days had elapsed.
Let us go into Judea again (Agwmen eiv thn Ioudaian palin). Volitive (hortative) subjunctive of agw (intransitive use as in verses John 11:11, John 11:16). They had but recently escaped the rage of the Jews in Jerusalem (John 10:39) to this haven in Bethany beyond Jordan (John 10:40).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:7:
John 11:15
John 14:31
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