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- Subject: NCS-- JOHN 11
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:31:41 -0500 (EST)
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- John 11:1-57
- ============
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- THE DEATH OF LAZARUS
- ====================
-
- John 11:1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the
- village of Mary and her sister Martha.
-
- John 11:2 This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same
- one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.
-
- John 11:3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love
- is sick."
-
- John 11:4 When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end
- in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified
- through it."
-
- John 11:5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
-
- John 11:6 Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he
- was two more days.
-
- John 11:7 Then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
-
- John 11:8 "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews tried to
- stone you, and yet you are going back there?"
-
- John 11:9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A
- man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's
- light.
-
- John 11:10 It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has
- no light."
-
- John 11:11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our
- friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him
- up."
-
- John 11:12 His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get
- better."
-
- John 11:13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples
- thought he meant natural sleep.
-
- John 11:14 So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead,
-
- John 11:15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you
- may believe. But let us go to him."
-
- John 11:16 Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the
- disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
-
-
- JESUS COMFORTS THE SISTERS
- ==========================
-
- John 11:17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been
- in the tomb for four days.
-
- John 11:18 Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
-
- John 11:19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them
- in the loss of their brother.
-
- John 11:20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to
- meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
-
- John 11:21 "Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my
- brother would not have died.
-
- John 11:22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you
- ask."
-
- John 11:23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
-
- John 11:24 Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the
- resurrection at the last day."
-
- John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He
- who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
-
- John 11:26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
- believe this?"
-
- John 11:27 "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the
- Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
-
- John 11:28 And after she had said this, she went back and called her
- sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for
- you."
-
- John 11:29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
-
- John 11:30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at
- the place where Martha had met him.
-
- John 11:31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house,
- comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they
- followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
-
- John 11:32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him,
- she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother
- would not have died."
-
- John 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along
- with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
-
- John 11:34 "Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord,"
- they replied.
-
- John 11:35 Jesus wept.
-
- John 11:36 Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
-
- John 11:37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of
- the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
-
- JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD
- ==================================
-
- John 11:38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a
- cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
-
- John 11:39 "Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha,
- the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he
- has been there four days."
-
- John 11:40 Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed,
- you would see the glory of God?"
-
- John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said,
- "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
-
- John 11:42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the
- benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you
- sent me."
-
- John 11:43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice,
- "Lazarus, come out!"
-
- John 11:44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with
- strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them,
- "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."
-
-
- THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS
- ======================
-
- John 11:45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and
- had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.
-
- John 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what
- Jesus had done.
-
- John 11:47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting
- of the Sanhedrin. "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is
- this man performing many miraculous signs.
-
- John 11:48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in
- him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and
- our nation."
-
- John 11:49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that
- year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all!
-
- John 11:50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man
- die for the people than that the whole nation perish."
-
- John 11:51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that
- year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
-
- John 11:52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered
- children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
-
- John 11:53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
-
- John 11:54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the
- Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village
- called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
-
- John 11:55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went
- up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before
- the Passover.
-
- John 11:56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the
- temple area they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he
- coming to the Feast at all?"
-
- John 11:57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that
- if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they
- might arrest him.
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