The Gospel According to John Chapter 11

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The Gospel According to John Chapter 11

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The Power Over Death

The Death of Lazarus

1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany (V.18, <2 miles to East from Jerusalem), the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (Lazarus was sick.)

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.) (Mary once devoted herself to the teaching of Jesus and also devoted perfume for Jesus, while Martha was busy preparing food. Lk. 10:41-42)

3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” (The sisters sent the message about Lazarus to Jesus.)

4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” (Jesus wanted to take this chance as an opportunity to reveal the God's power over death, so said that Lazarus would not die.)

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. (Jesus loves all but have a very close personal relationship with them, maybe because of their dedication. Jam. 4:8, Gen. 5:25)

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.” (Jesus delayed His departure to Lazarus two days.)

8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” (The followers reminded Jesus the danger of the Jews who tried to stone Jesus. 8:58-59, 10:31-33)

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.

10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.” (It is not, however, time to die for Jesus yet, but time for the public ministry of Jesus. 10:18)

11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; (Jesus knew that Lazarus was dead.) but I am going there to wake him up.” (His death, however, will be overcome.)

12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” (The disciples didn't understand what Jesus meant with the word "asleep.")

13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. (Jesus meant death with the word asleep.)

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. But let us go to him.” (Jesus clarifies what He meant; the death of Lazarus. But they will see more than death; the awakened Lazarus.)

16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” (Thomas was bold facing death but ignorant.)

Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus

17 On his arrival (From Perea, 20-25 miles. 10:40, 11:7-15), Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. (When Jesus arrived at Bethany after four days of the Lazarus' burial.)

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. (Many came to comfort Martha and Mary from Jerusalem which is located nearby.)

20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. (Martha came out to meet Jesus, while Mary stayed.)

21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. (If Jesus was here,..)

22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (But still.)

23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” (Lazarus will come back to life from death.)

24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” (Martha believed 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 (resurrection); 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die (spiritually). Do you believe this?” (Jesus is the Origin of the current life and resurrection at the last day. Death is eventual for all but not the final of being, and the transition from the moment to the eternity.)

27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” (Martha was a very solid believer of the truth of the resurrection and eternal life.)

28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” (Martha called Mary out to Jesus.)

29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. (Mary met Jesus at the entrance of the town.)

31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. (The people wondered why she is rushing out, if she goes to the tomb. This report of John the Apostle on the death and rising again of Lazarus was very detail, proving that the report of John on this happening is true.)

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” (If... again.)

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. (They were all sympathetic with the saddened family.)

34 “Where have you laid him?”he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35 Jesus wept. (Jesus was saddened and wept too even He knew that the death was not the final. Why?)

36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” (Jesus and the family were very close.)

37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” (Some wondered if Jesus may do something better for the family with His healing power rather than letting Lazarus died.)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved (emotion), came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

39 “Take away the stone,” he said. (Jesus came to the tomb, and asked to open the stone.) “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” (Martha reported to Jesus that the body of Lazarus began to decay in four days.)

40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” (Jesus reassured Martha His intention to bring Lazarus' life back again.)

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, (So they obeyed Jesus moving the stone away.) “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. (God always hears Jesus, because what Jesus always pleases God with His request and ministry.)

42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” (Jesus made His prayer for Lazarus' life public to prove the intimate relationship of the Father God and the Son of God for the people.)

43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” (Why Jesus shouted calling the Lazarus rather than whispering?)

44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. (The body of Lazarus came out of the tomb while being wrapped with strips of linen.) Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” (Lazarus didn't need the grave clothes any more since he came out of the tomb. 2Co. 5:17. Lazarus came back to life again. But it was not the resurrection of the last day since he died again later.)

The Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. (Bringing the dead to life again is the most sensational sign of Jesus. Many people witnessed and came to faith in Jesus.)

46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. (Those who had been living under the authority of Pharisees reported the news to the Pharisees.)

47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.

48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.” (The leaders summoned Sanhedrin and discussed what they were going to do with the rising popularity of Jesus among the people. Their excuse was the Roman rules against the Jews.)

49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas(1), who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all!

50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” (Caiaphas insisted that it might be better for them to kill Jesus to prevent a possible riot against Roman Rule. He meant, if riot broke out for the independence of the Israel because of the popularity of Jesus, then many Jews might be killed by the Roman Soldiers in the process of suppression.)

51 He did not say this on his own, (He said so according to his own opinion.) but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. (But there was a hidden implication; a prophecy of the high priest of the year about the upcoming death of Jesus for the salvation of the Jews and also all the scattered children of God throughout the world.)

53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life. (Now they had justified their plot to kill and got into the next stage; the actual actions.)

54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. (Knowing the seriousness of the plot, Jesus and his disciples withdrew to Ephraim, 12-15 miles NNE from Jerusalem, near the wilderness.)

55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. (It was almost Passover so that the local people began to congregate in Jerusalem.)

56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” (The people who gathered in the temple courts talked about Jesus if He would come or not.)

57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him. (Also the Jewish leaders searched the whereabout of Jesus to arrest Him.)

(1,Caiaphas) (Google AI)

Caiaphas was the Jewish High Priest in Jerusalem (approx. 18–36 AD) who presided over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus and played a central role in his crucifixion. He was a Sadducee who served as a political liaison for Roman authorities and argued that executing Jesus was necessary to prevent the Romans from destroying their nation.