John 11 Bible study: The resurrection and the life

"Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha" (11:1). "The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”" (11:3). Here is what almost everyone misses: the message asks for nothing. It doesn't say come, and it doesn't say heal him; it says only who is sick. "But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”" (11:4) (tap glory). Then the Gospel says, "Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus" (11:5), and in the next verse, "When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was" (11:6). The Gospel gives these two verses one after the other; the honest question below sets out what the chapter says about the two days, and adds nothing to it.

Joshua 10:14→leads toJohn 11:41-42

"There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man" (10:14). At the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus prayed, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. I know that you always listen to me" (John 11:41-42). Jesus doesn't cite Joshua 10, so setting the two side by side is a reading. Some hear them together: the one day 10:14 remembers because the LORD listened to a man, and the Son who says the Father always listens to him. Others read each in its own setting: 10:14 ties that day to the battle, "for the LORD fought for Israel", and Jesus says he spoke "that they may believe that you sent me" (John 11:42).

ἀνάστασιςanastasissay an-AS-tas-is

Strong's: "a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death". Martha says it first: "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day" (11:24). Jesus answers with the same word: "I am the resurrection and the life" (11:25). John's Greek has the noun four times, counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates: twice in 5:29, and these two. The rise again of "Your brother will rise again" (11:23) and of Martha's answer (11:24) is the verb anistemi (G450), studied in Favor's chapter on Mark 8. These notes say nothing of what "I am the resurrection" means beyond the words.