![]() Johns Gospel - A Discipleship Journey with Jesus Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, and speaks to Mary and Martha about resurrection and life found in him. John clearly saw the Lazarus event as the last great deed Jesus performed as proof of his divinity before his arrest and crucifixion. I Am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:1-54). Also called 'Dives and Lazarus', or 'The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus', the narrative tells of the relationship (in life and in death) between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus. However, Luke’s account of this event is much briefer than John’s Lazarus story, and it happens much earlier in Jesus’ life. The name 'Lazarus' also appears in the Gospel of Luke in the parable of Lazarus and Dives, which is attributed to Jesus. ![]() In Luke 7:14-15, Jesus raises the dead son of a widow, with the wording of Luke (‘And he that was dead sat up’) being echoed by John’s ‘And he that was dead came forth’. Since the next verse tells us that Martha is present at the tomb also, this suggests that a significant amount of time elapsed between verses 37 and 38. ![]() Whatever the truth of it, there are examples elsewhere in the Gospels of Jesus raising the dead. John 11:38 (NASB) Jesus was deeply, emotionally moved again (v. In the case of the Gospel of John, this story of the raising of Lazarus serves as a catalyst leading up to Jesus’ own death and resurrection. It’s possible (as the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible suggest) that John is expanding the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke’s gospel (in which Lazarus, the humble beggar, goes to heaven but the rich man does not). But only John mentions the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (the other one) from the dead. Luke (chapter 16) tells of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but this Lazarus (a beggar) isn’t the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. They appear to have been different people. ![]()
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