I am the ressurection and the life

[Giggly_Giraffe]

John 11:1-45 … Today’s reading … Jesus tells Martha that he is the resurrection and the life. Were the Jewish people hoping, anticipating, the Messiah/Christ to raise the dead? I can see how Ezekiel 37 ties it in … But would Martha, Mary, and the other Jews of the time have been looking for this?

Also, Im assuming the Egypitans anticipated the dead with their mummification rituals … But does the Egypitian entwine with the Jewish/Christain view of resurrection?

What ever happened to Lazzarith? Was he assumed Into heaven or is he still living?

I’m not a big fan of zombie apocalypse stories … But are they birthed from this passage in the bible?

 

[CatholicZ09]

John 11:1-45 … Today’s reading … Jesus tells Martha that he is the resurrection and the life. Were the Jewish people hoping, anticipating, the Messiah/Christ to raise the dead? I can see how Ezekiel 37 ties it in … But would Martha, Mary, and the other Jews of the time have been looking for this?

Also, Im assuming the Egypitans anticipated the dead with their mummification rituals … But does the Egypitian entwine with the Jewish/Christain view of resurrection?

What ever happened to Lazzarith? Was he assumed Into heaven or is he still living?

I’m not a big fan of zombie apocalypse stories … But are they birthed from this passage in the bible?

The Messiah would indeed perform “many signs and wonders;” however, they probably didn’t expect Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead. I mean, I wouldn’t either if I was there. Many people doubted Jesus even after he performed numerous miracles. Even some Jewish bystanders said, “Can’t this man who cured the blind man raise this man from the dead?”

I’m not sure about the Egyptian rituals.

Lazarus was resurrected from the dead; however, he wasn’t given a glorified resurrected body like Christ got at His resurrection, so Lazarus still had his earthly body after his resurrection; therefore, he experienced a second death years later.

No, this is not a “zombie apocalypse story”; it’s simply a story about God revealing His work through His Son.

 

[GEddie]

Lazarus resumed his original human body, so he no doubt died again, although he disappears from Scripture after his “awakening.”

The Gospel is not about him after all; it is about our LORD.

I am not sure that the Egyptians anticipated the bodily resurrection. They knew that a mummified human being was incapable of resuming aliveness; but they knew that bodyhood is intrinsic to the person, so there was a conflict, just as with the hearers of 1 Co 15.

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