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John 11:11
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10:33
Lev 24:16
Matt 26:63-66
John 1:1, 18; 5:18;
20:28
Rom 9:5
Phil 2:6
Titus 2:13
2 Pet 1:1
1 Jn 5:20
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Eph 4:31
10:34
*Ps 82:6
10:36
John 5:17-20
10:42
John 2:23; 7:31; 8:30;
11:45; 12:11, 42
11:1
Matt 21:17
Luke 10:38
11:2
John 12:3
11:4
John 9:3
11:8
John 8:59; 10:31
krhabbi (4461)
John 20:16
11:9
John 9:4
11:10
John 12:35
11:11
Dan 12:2
Matt 9:24; 27:52
Mark 5:39
Luke 8:52
stones to kill him. 32Jesus said, “At my Fa
ther’s direct ion I have done many good
works. For which one are you going to
stone me?”
33They replied, “We’re stoning you not
for any good work, but for jblasphemy! You,
a mere man, claim to be God.”
34Jesus replied, “It is written in your own
Script ures that God said to certain leaders
of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’ 35And
you know that the Script ures cannot be
altered. So if those people who received
God’s message were called ‘gods,’ 36why do
you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the
Son of God’? After all, the Father set me
apart and sent me into the world. 37Don’t
believe me unless I carr y out my Father’s
work. 38But if I do his work, believe in the
evidence of the miraculous works I have
done, even if you don’t believe me. Then
you will know and understand that the Fa
ther is in me, and I am in the Father.”
39Once again they tried to arrest him,
but he got away and left them. 40He went
beyond the Jordan River near the place
where John was first bapt izing and stayed
there awhile. 41And many followed him.
“John didn’t perform miraculous signs,”
they remarked to one another, “but every
thing he said about this man has come
true.” 42And many who were there be
lieved in Jesus.
kill him. The problem was not Jesus’
good works, but his claim to divinity
(see 6:42, 60; 7:29-30). Committing
blasphemy was punishable by stoning
(Lev 24:23; see John 8:59).
10:34-36 your own Scriptures: Literally
your own law. See Ps 82:6. I say, you
are gods! If the word god could be
applied to people other than the Lord,
then Jesus was not breaking the law
by referring to himself in this way. Yet
Jesus is not just any son of God; he is
the Son of God who was sent . . . into
the world.
10:38 Jesus’ miraculous works should
help true believers know and understand that the full reality of God dwells
in Jesus.
10:40 His revelation to the Jewish leaders now complete, Jesus retired to the
region beyond the Jordan River where
John the Baptist had once worked and
where Jesus was baptized.
10:41 everything he said about this
man has come true: See 1:19-51;
3:22-36. The fulfillment of John the
Baptist’s predictions confirms both
that he was a prophet and that what
he said about Jesus was true.
10:42 This is a note of irony. While
Foreshadowing Jesus’ Death and
Resurrection (11:1–12:50)
Lazarus: A Model of Jesus’ Resurrection
A man named Lazarus was sick. He
lived in Bethany with his sisters,
Mary and Martha. 2This is the Mary who
later poured the expensive perfume on the
Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair.
Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3So the two
sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him,
“Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
4But when Jesus heard about it he said,
“Lazar us’s sickness will not end in death.
No, it happened for the glor y of God so that
the Son of God will receive glor y from this.”
5So alt hough Jesus loved Mart ha, Mary, and
Lazar us, 6he stayed where he was for the
next two days. 7Finally, he said to his disci
ples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
8But his disciples objected. “ kRabbi,” they
said, “only a few days ago the people in Ju
dea were trying to stone you. Are you going
there again?”
9Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of
daylight every day. During the day people
can walk safely. They can see because they
have the light of this world. 10But at night
there is danger of stumbling because they
have no light.” 11Then he said, “Our friend
Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go
and wake him up.”
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Jesus found little faith among the
religious leaders in the holy city of
Jerusalem, in the desert he found many
who . . . believed.
11:1-57 The raising of Lazarus foreshadows Jesus’ own coming death and
resurrection. Even the description of
Lazarus’ grave (11:38, 44) prefigures
Jesus’ grave (20:1, 7). Shortly after this
event, Jesus was anointed for burial
(12:3) and the hour of his glorification
began (12:23).
11:1 In Hebrew, Lazarus is a shortened form of Eleazar (“God helps”).
Among Jews in the first century, it
was the fourth-most-common name
for a man (see also Luke 16:19-31).
Bethany was a small village east of
Jerusalem just over the Mount of Olives (11:18), where Jesus often stayed
when he was in Jerusalem. Jesus
would have traveled through Bethany
on the way to Jerusalem because most
Jews used a route going east from
Jerusalem, down to Jericho, and north
to Galilee. Mary and Martha were
sisters (Luke 10:38-42). Martha was
probably older; she was the host in
Luke’s story and here represented the
family. Mary later anointed Jesus with
perfume (12:1-8).
11:2 Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and
wiped them with her hair: This incident
is recorded in ch 12.
11:3 The two sisters had a dilemma.
They knew Jesus’ power as a healer,
but they also realized that his return
to Judea would entail personal risk
(11:8).
11:4 Jesus’ response paralleled his
words about the man born blind (9:1-5).
Jesus already knew that Lazarus was
dead (11:14); he was talking about Lazarus’ resurrection (11:43), which would
bring glory to God.
11:6 The trip from where Jesus was
staying (see 10:40) to Jerusalem would
have taken only one day, but Jesus
followed his own sense of timing (2:4;
7:5-9) and would not be compelled by
others.
11:8 The disciples were rightly
worried about the risk (7:25; 8:37,
44, 59; 10:31, 39). people: Literally
Jewish people; also in 11:19, 31, 33, 36,
45, 54.
