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Resurrection: verses to memorise
…asleep. His resurrection is the first of a harvest, not a one time exception. John 11:25-26 At Lazarus' tomb Jesus says he is the resurrection and the life, and that whoever believes in him will live even though he dies. Romans 6:4 We were buried with him through baptism into death so that, as…
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John 11:25-26
At Lazarus' tomb Jesus says he is the resurrection and the life, and that whoever believes in him will live even though he dies. It is the passage read at Christian funerals for a reason. Resurrection is not only a future event, it is a person standing in front of you. John 5:28-29 1 Corinthians…
Bible studies (20)
Devotional
Lazarus, Come Out
John 11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” WEB John records that Jesus deliberately delayed coming, staying two more days after hearing Lazarus was sick, in verse 6, and then…
Chapter study
John 15: The Vine, the Branches, and the Friends of God
…new birth, fed five thousand, walked on water, healed the blind, raised Lazarus, and repeatedly told the religious leaders that His hour had not yet come. In chapter 13, at the Passover meal, that changes. Jesus washes…
Reading plan
The Gospel of John in 21 Days
…before it happens. John 11 Resurrection Jesus arrives after his friend Lazarus has already died, weeps openly at the tomb even though he knows what he is about to do, and then calls Lazarus back to life. Grief and…
52 Week Journey
Week 38: Grief and Comfort
…for Sarah, David for Absalom, Job for everything at once, Jesus at Lazarus's tomb. The Bible never treats tears as a failure of faith. It records them, often at length, and lets its own poets write whole books out of…
52 Week Journey
Week 44: The Miracles of Jesus
…is a sinner. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” WEB Lazarus, Come Out Jesus weeps before he calls a dead man by name. John 11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come…
Devotional
A Fountain of Life
…person away from deadly traps. The image pairs life and death directly, raising the stakes of the choice. LORD, be the fountain that keeps me from snares I cannot always see coming. Let reverence for You flow into how I…
Devotional
Abraham Rises Early
…information, and the chapter's answer is that he does, all the way to raising the knife in verse 10. The ram caught in the thicket in verse 13 provides the substitute at the last possible moment, and Abraham names the…
Devotional
Come to Me and Rest
…judgment on unrepentant cities in Matthew 11:20-24 and then praising the Father for hiding things from the wise and revealing them to little children in verses 25-27. The offer of rest in verse 28 comes right after a…
Devotional
Failure Is Not the End of Following
…elsewhere interchangeably for the Father's love and for Jesus' love for Lazarus. What is not in question is the pattern: three questions answering three denials, each followed by a task, showing that Jesus restores…
Devotional
Folded Grave Clothes
…linen cloths by themselves, wondering at what had happened. John 11:44 Lazarus came out still bound in graveclothes and had to be unwound; Jesus left his behind entirely, a different kind of resurrection. What would it…
Devotional
Forgiving from the Heart
…Jesus answers a counting question by removing the ceiling, not by raising the number. Boundaries and forgiveness are not the same thing; the text addresses forgiveness. The number is tied directly to the parable of the…
Devotional
Giving That God Loves
…or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. WEB Paul is raising money for the poor in Jerusalem, and he takes real care over the spirit of the giving, not just the total collected. Reluctant or pressured giving…
Devotional
He Will Wipe Away Every Tear
…all things new, Revelation 21:5. This is the same Christ who wept at Lazarus's tomb, John 11:35, and who will one day end weeping altogether.
Devotional
He Will Wipe Away Every Tear
…it. The One who will wipe away every tear is the same One who wept at Lazarus's tomb in John 11:35 and who was Himself raised from the dead. The end of grief in Revelation rests on the resurrection that has already…
Devotional
Jesus Wept
John 11:35 Jesus wept. WEB Jesus knew He was about to raise Lazarus. He had already said as much a few verses earlier. And He wept anyway, standing at the tomb of a friend, watching Mary and the others cry. This settles…
Devotional
Thanksgiving Before the Answer
…His gratitude is not tied to personal credit. The prayer moves from praising God's greatness and power in verses 10-12 to this thanksgiving in verse 13, then to the confession in verse 14 that all things come from God,…
Devotional
The Heavens Declare
…in clarity rather than switching subjects. The psalm ends, after praising both witnesses, with a prayer about hidden faults and presumptuous sins, verses 12 and 13. Having heard creation's glory and the law's…
Devotional
Train Up a Child
…or setting apart, the same root used elsewhere for dedicating a house. Raising a child is treated as a kind of consecration, not simply management. Training is deliberate, not accidental. Wisdom literature speaks in…
Devotional
Your Faith Has Made You Well
…anonymous to You. Amen. This healing happens inside another story, the raising of Jairus' daughter, in Mark 5:21-43. Mark interrupts one narrative with another, and both involve touch, both involve a period of twelve…
Reading plan day
The Gospel of John in 21 Days, day 13: Resurrection
Jesus arrives after his friend Lazarus has already died, weeps openly at the tomb even though he knows what he is about to do, and then calls Lazarus back to life. Grief and resurrection power sit side by side in the…
Bible topics (3)
Word and phrase
Eternal Life
…say, I am the resurrection and the life, to Martha before he raises Lazarus, tying eternal life directly to his own person rather than to a doctrine about the afterlife. John 10:28 records Jesus giving eternal life…
Biblical concept
Oil and anointing
…sharply, and James 5:14 sets anointing inside prayer and the Lord's own raising up of the sick. Acts 8:18-21 James 5:14-15 Being anointed means being successful. David was anointed and then hunted for years before he…
Biblical concept
Resurrection
…John 11:25 has Jesus attach the doctrine to himself before he raises Lazarus, so the resurrection is a person before it is an event.
Questions and answers (6)
Bible question
Can I lose my salvation?
…false teachers and the danger of being led astray, yet it closes by praising the one who is able to keep believers from stumbling and present them faultless. Warning and confidence sit inside the very same short book.…
Bible question
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
…that door himself. 1 Corinthians 15:14 and 15:17 say that without the raising, the preaching and the faith are empty and sinners are still in their sins. The New Testament does not offer a symbolic version of its own…
Bible question
What does the Bible teach about heaven?
…of personal identity. Luke 16:23 The rich man recognizes Abraham and Lazarus by name in Jesus's account, indicating personal identity and recognition continue beyond death. Does the hope of recognizing loved ones again…
Bible question
What happens after death?
…separation Luke 16:23-24 In Jesus's account of the rich man and Lazarus, the rich man is described as being 'in hell... in torments,' fully conscious, remembering his brothers, and unable to cross to comfort. Jesus…
Bible question
Why did Jesus rise from the dead?
…throughout the New Testament for the resurrection assumes an active raising by someone else, most often stated as God raising Jesus, underscoring that this was the Father's act, not merely Jesus surviving death on his…
Bible question
Why does God allow suffering?
…told him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. WEB Before Jesus raises Lazarus he groans and weeps. Any biblical answer to suffering that leaves God unmoved has already left the text. The Bible answers this question with…
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