![]() ![]() ![]() 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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