Day 6

Most Christians are familiar with the healing of Lazarus in John 11. Over the next seven days, we’ll dig into all our Lord Jesus said and did and how it ties to our lives today. We read in John 11:1–4, Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointme...

Jesus was always in perfect fellowship with our Heavenly Father and did exactly what the Father sent Him to do while He lived on earth (John 4:34, John 5:30, John 6:38). So, we read in John 11:5–6, Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. ...

As we read John 11:7–15, we see that after a couple of days had passed, Jesus told His disciples it was time to go back to Judea. The disciples all remembered that when they had left Judea, the religious leaders were the ones who wanted to stone Jesus to death. The disciples quickly brought that point up to Jesus, but Jesus reassured them tha...

Though Jesus had comforted the disciples about returning to Judea, we can tell from John 11:16 that they did not believe Him (Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”). Thomas told the other guys that they would not abandon their Lord and to plan to die alongside Him...

Jesus’ compassion and kindness for His children far exceed anything we can imagine. Jesus knew what He was about to do but still grieved with Martha and Mary. We read in John 11:33, When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled. As Jesus watched Mary and Marth...

God has given us a beautiful picture of His compassion, kindness, and miraculous power in John 11:34–46. Two of the most powerful words found in this passage are in John 11:35, Jesus wept. Jesus knew He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead but still grieved with Mary and Martha. We know Mary and Martha were still clueless as to our Lord’s...

According to John 11:46, those Jews who went and reported how Jesus resurrected Lazarus from the dead caused the chief priests and the Pharisees to convene a council on what to do. All these men were worried about was that the Roman government would take over if more people kept following Jesus. All those men cared about was their political a...