Analysis - Jesus Raised Lazarus from Death
that it is not only for the disciples of Jesus but it is for the one who believes in him.One of the important
thing from a non believer side is that, Jesus is saying to the people This Illness does not lead to Death. But we can see that Lazarus would die and Jesus knew this. Why Jesus is saying like this “It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”In the next paragraph we can see that “Jesus says that Lazarus has fallen asleep, a frequent use of the Jewish vernacular meaning death. The disciples didn’t understand because they said that if Lazarus is sleeping, he’ll get better but Jesus plainly said that Lazarus is dead. Why then does Jesus say that “for your sake I am glad that I was not there?” It is so “that they may believe.”
Lazarus was not only dead but dead for four days which means that his body had begun to undergo deterioration or decay. Being dead for four days makes the possibility of Lazarus living again humanly
impossible. Martha seems to rebuke Jesus by saying “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” Jesus tells Martha that “Your brother will rise again” and Martha replies “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” The “last day” is a reference to the day when all will be raised from their graves; some to eternal life and some to everlasting destruction. Martha believed in the resurrection and so she knew that he would live again indicating that she believe that Lazarus would be in the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said that He is “the resurrection and the life [and] whoever believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live again.” Martha even goes further and says that “Yes Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Martha knows more theology than do the religious leaders like the Pharisees and certainly more that the Sadducees, who didn’t even believe in the resurrection.Jesus tells them to “Take away the stone” but Martha tried to tell Jesus that the stench of Lazarus’ dead body, now in the grave for four days, would be overwhelming. Martha apparently still didn’t get it. Perhaps that is why Jesus was both agitated and angry because none of them believed that Jesus could actually raise the dead. Here Jesus rebukes Martha for her unbelief or her lack of understanding about what Jesus was trying to tell her “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” When it says that Jesus cried out in a loud voice, the Greek indicates that it was a shout and so all that were there could not help but hear Jesus’ words. Jesus cried out with a very loud shout, “Lazarus, come out.” And so he did. I believe that if Jesus had not mentioned Lazarus’ specifically by name, all that were in their graves would have come out of them because Jesus’ has effectual power to raise the dead and to bring about what He declares for He is the resurrection and the life.
As a conclusion we can say that The Entire story is a hope for the entire humanity
. Nothing is impossible with God, believe in him.
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- Bible Story: Jesus Raised Lazarus from Death (St.John11:4-44) Syeda Zainab Akbar