The Gospel of Johnrecounts the story of Lazarus in what is the most detailed account of any of the miracles of Jesus. Lazarus was more than a random person in the crowd reaching out for help from Jesus. He was a personal friend and his death deeply affected Jesus, as described in the ...
Lazarus is mentioned again in the Gospel of John chapter 12. Six days before the Passover on which Jesus is crucified, Jesus returns to Bethany and Lazarus attends a supper that Martha, his sister, serves. Jesus and Lazarus together attract the attention of many Jews and the narrator state ...
In the Gospel of John, Jesus’ death is consistently portrayed as his ‘glorification’ through which he accomplishes his return to the Father. John 11:5 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. It was necessary for the author to reaffirm Jesus’ love for Martha and her sister and...
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tale is found in the Gospel of John. Many people focus on Jesus’s act of raising Lazarus from the dead (he had been entombed for four days) as a pre-figuring of his own resurrection. It is that, no question. But there are other elements of the story that I think are often ...
1. An inhabitant of Bethany, brother of Mary and Martha, honored with the friendship of Jesus, by whom he was raised from the dead after he had been four days in the tomb (Joh 11:1-17). A.D. 29. This great miracle is minutely described in John 11 (see Kitto, Daily Bible Illust...
It turns out there is another prominent figure in the life of Jesus who is also nowhere to be found in the first three gospels. Is this simply a coincidence? Two of the key people Jesus’ life are found in the fourth gospel andonly the fourth gospel. ...
of John's Lazarus cycle was based on historical fact, but since the gospel of Luke had been circulating for decades by the time John wrote, he could have used the name Lazarus as a literary device (namely referring to Luke's Lazarus) instead of using the real and irrelevant name of ...
Hi. I'm Lazarus, John's dummy. Although, I don't know why they call me the dummy. He is the one who stands up in front of people and talks to himself. And he even loses the argument. People often ask me how I got started doing ventriloquism with John. Well, actually, John star...
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