8 "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?"
8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"
8 They said, "Rabbi, you can't do that. The Jews are out to kill you, and you're going back?"
8 The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?"
8 But his disciples objected. "Rabbi," they said, "only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?"
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 11:8
Commentary on John 11:7-10
(Read John 11:7-10)
Christ never brings his people into any danger but he goes with them in it. We are apt to think ourselves zealous for the Lord, when really we are only zealous for our wealth, credit, ease, and safety; we have therefore need to try our principles. But our day shall be lengthened out, till our work is done, and our testimony finished. A man has comfort and satisfaction while in the way of his duty, as set forth by the word of God, and determined by the providence of God. Christ, wherever he went, walked in the day; and so shall we, if we follow his steps. If a man walks in the way of his heart, and according to the course of this world, if he consults his own carnal reasonings more than the will and glory of God, he falls into temptations and snares. He stumbles, because there is no light in him; for light in us is to our moral actions, that which light about us to our natural actions.