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Lazarus resurrection8/19/2023 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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