“The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”Ģ7 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”Ģ8 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. 21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. But let us go to him.” 16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus ) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”ġ7 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.” 11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep but I am going there to wake him up.”ġ2 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”Ĩ “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” 4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Only John records the story, but in some detail, in Ch 11 v1-44 Lazarus is the brother of Mary and Martha. This is a place that Jesus knows well and a family that he is particularly close to. The story of Lazarus takes place in Bethany, to the east of Jerusalem. So in this three-part series, let’s have a look at them, in the order that they appear, and think a little about what these most astounding of all Jesus’ miracles show us about him, about the person he raised from the dead and their circumstances, and maybe even about us. Three times when Jesus refused to accept that death was irreversible, final, and gave someone another chance at life.Īnd in looking at those three occasions, three very different people, three very different sets of circumstances, we can see that once again, as in so many of his miracles, Jesus is teaching us something each time too. And of course, the writer of one of the Gospels, the Apostle John, tells us that “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)īut of all the miracles that we know about, those that were written down, surely the most extraordinary, the most astonishing, the most amazing, were the three times that Jesus gave life back to someone who was dead. There are 37 recorded miracles of Jesus in the Bible 37 times that Jesus did something inexplicable in any other way than that God had powerfully acted.
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