Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Had spoken (eirhkei). Past perfect of eipon (erw). The disciples had misunderstood Christ's metaphor for death.
That he spake (oti legei). Present active indicative retained in indirect discourse after the secondary tense (edocan).
Of taking rest in sleep (peri thv koimhsewv tou upou). Only use of koimhsiv (from koimaw) in the N.T., but it also was used of death (Sirach 46:19). upnou (in sleep) is objective genitive of upnov (sleep, Matthew 1:24).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:13:
John 5:39
John 11:15
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