30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. 29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.Ģ8 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.Ģ5 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: 19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.Ģ0 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house. 16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.ġ7 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe nevertheless let us go unto him. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.ġ4 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.ġ1 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. 7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.Ĩ His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee and goest thou thither again? 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.Ĥ 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. John 11:1-46ġ Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. With that in mind, let’s read through the story. Remember the context: In John 10:40, we saw that Jesus had left Jerusalem and had returned to the area where John the Baptist had begun his ministry (About 20 miles or more, east of Jerusalem, by the Jordan River, closer to Jericho.) So, he was probably at least 20 miles away… a long day’s walk, but certainly achievable. In future messages we will come back again, and dig a little deeper. Then we will come back and touch on some of the key points we don’t want to miss, in just reading through it. So, let’s read through the entire account, in John 11:1-46, and see exactly what happened. This is a key testimony to Jesus’s authority over life and death: He restored life to one who had been dead long enough that their corpse was beginning to decay. We can see that even had Jesus left immediately, Lazarus still would have died.) (How do we know? Jesus waited two days before responding, but when He arrived, Lazarus had already been in the grave for four days. Jesus was told, as they hoped, but apparently a little too late to get there in time. He was sick, and the sisters sent word to Jesus. He lived there with his two sisters, Mary and Martha. This Lazarus was a homeowner in Bethany, almost two miles outside Jerusalem. So: to begin with, this is the story of Jesus’s friend, Lazarus of Bethany: not the “Lazarus” who was the beggar from Luke 16:20. There are, perhaps, dozens of sermons which could be derived from this passage, but our first priority is to hear and understand the whole story. This is a rather long chapter, and it has an important central narrative.
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