Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.
John 11
The Death of Lazarus
John 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
John 11:3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
John 11:4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
John 11:7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
John 11:8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?”
John 11:9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
John 11:10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
John 11:11 These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”
John 11:12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.”
John 11:13 However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
John 11:14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
John 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
John 11:16 Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
- They knew the Jewish leaders were looking to kill Jesus.
I Am the Resurrection and the Life
John 11:17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
John 11:18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about [Lit. 15 stadia] two miles away.
- Jerusalem was walking distance from Bethany on the Sabbath.
John 11:19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
John 11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
John 11:21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
John 11:22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
John 11:23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
John 11:24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
- Reference Verse:
- Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
- If Jesus is the resurrection, isn’t He also God? If Jesus is the source of life, isn’t He also God? Didn’t Jesus raise Himself from the dead when He said “Destroy this temple (My body) and I will raise it in three days”?
John 11:26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Jesus and Death, the Last Enemy
John 11:28 And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.”
John 11:29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him.
John 11:30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but (was still) was in the place where Martha met Him.
John 11:31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, (supposing that she was going) saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
John 11:32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
John 11:33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
John 11:34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
- Two words expressing God’s love for His creation.
- The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible
- A biblical poem using two words:
Title: Sins: Adam had’em
John 11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
John 11:37 And some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”
Lazarus Raised from the Dead
John 11:38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
John 11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
- Lazarus died on day one. Lazarus has been dead three days, On day four Lazarus is raised from the dead.
John 11:40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 11:42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
John 11:43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
John 11:44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
- ► Lazarus, when raised from the dead, was raised to die again. This was not a true resurrection: In the harvest of the resurrections, men will no longer suffer death.
- A literal resurrection is someone who will not die again. When Jesus rose from the dead he was the first born of those resurrected from the dead never to die again. After Jesus rose as the first fruits, tombs were opened and several saints rose. Jesus, along with the saints, are the wave offering (the sheaf offering) during the feast of unleavened bread. The Jewish feasts are symbolic of literal prophetic events in God’s plan for man’s redemption.
- All resurrections are connected to literal Jewish Feasts. First the first fruits, then the sheaves, then the main harvest, and finally the gleanings. But not all Feasts are connected to resurrections. One such exception is the Giving of Tongues, which falls on Pentecost; a prophetic message of passing the torch from the Old Covenant (when Moses received the law) to the New Covenant (grace). The resurrections of the faithful are called the first resurrection, whereas the second resurrection is for the unfaithful and unbelievers.
- Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. Revelation 20:6
- and come forth— those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. John 5:29
- First fruits (Jesus) and the wave offering (certain tombs of the saints) are past resurrections.
- This concept is most illustrated in the harvest of the wheat and the tares (weeds) in three of the gospels:
- Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
- Luke 3:17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”
- ► Lazarus was bound by grave clothes: Lazarus is a perfect pattern of the Jews leaving Egypt. The Hebrew meaning of Egypt is to be bound, held captive, a slave, closed in.
- The Hebrew word for Egypt is “Mitzraim” which is a masculine plural noun in Hebrew. It stems from a Hebraic root which means to bind (shackle or imprison), to be bound or a boundary, and lastly it means bondage, servitude, or slavery. The above descriptions align perfectly with the Torah’s appellations and synonyms for Ancient Egypt or Kemet. Within the Torah, Egypt known in Hebrew as Mitzraim is synonymous with BONDAGE and servitude (Slavery). There are at least 13 references in the Torah to Egypt מצרים as being “the House of Bondage”:
- (Exodus:13:3, Exodus:13:14, Exodus:20:2, Deuteronomy:5:6, Deuteronomy:6:12, Deuteronomy:7:8, Deuteronomy:8:14, Deuteronomy:13:6, Deuteronomy:13:11, Joshua:24:17, Judges:6:8, Jeremiah:34:13, Micah:6:4).
- So whenever Egypt or in Hebrew Mitzraim is mentioned in the Torah, it is synonymous with physical and mental Bondage (Slavery).
The Plot to Kill Jesus
John 11:45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.
John 11:46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.
- The witnesses told the Pharisees Jesus raised a man from the dead.
- The Pharisees reply “Kill Him”
- Kill a man who raises men from the dead?
- Psalm 2:2,4 Why do the (gentile leaders) nations rage (like a stormy sea), And the people (Jewish leaders) plot a vain (hopeless, useless, empty) thing?, 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord (‘ăḏōnāy–spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence) shall hold them in derision.
John 11:47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
- The Chief Priests and Pharisees were spiritually dead, attempting to kill Jesus, spiritually alive.
The Spiritually Dead are always trying to kill the Spiritually alive. Thank God they are Blind.
John 11:48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
John 11:49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
- They speak prophetically, but not with truth; they are ignorant of the truth:
- Jesus’ death will ultimately save the Jewish nation, returning at the end of the seven-year tribulation before the Jews are completely annihilated by the Antichrist, to deliver them and save His remnant.
- Because Jesus was rejected and died on the cross, the nation was not saved immediately as Daniel’s 70 weeks indicated, but rather the Gentiles were grafted into the Jewish vine.
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