The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?” He said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” This is not what we expect, but we have learned that whatever happens, Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus, so we want to hear that he went to them right away - but he doesn’t.Īs in many of John’s gospels, we can feel this is a teaching moment. He remained for two days in the place where he was It is for the glory of God, and he is even more explicit in this Gospel – that the Son of God may be glorified through it. John offers us a story with a miracle – what he calls a sign, and as always with John, it is not to dazzle or impress. Knowing that each of us can feel we are the one Jesus loves. And this week, entering into the experience of Lazarus, We use the way John writes so that any of us could enter into that experience:įor sight and healing. The one you love is ill and needs healing. "The one you love is ill." As we have seen, often John does not use a name: The sisters sent word saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.” He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believeĪnd Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me.īut because of the crowd here I have said this, Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. Have done something so that this man would not have died?” So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.”īut some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, Whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,Īnd everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” ![]() Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here,īut even now I know that whatever you ask of God, Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away. Had already been in the tomb for four days. When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.” So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died.Īnd I am glad for you that I was not there, While they thought that he meant ordinary sleep. ![]() So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, ![]() Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” He remained for two days in the place where he was. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. That the Son of God may be glorified through it.” When Jesus heard this he said,“This illness is not to end in death, So the sisters sent word to him saying,“Master, the one you love is ill.” The village of Mary and her sister Martha. Praying with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Sundays of LentĪ Contemplation on The Raising of Lazarusįrom a talk given at St. Raising of Lazarus - 5th Sun of Lent - Year AĬreighton's Home Page | Creighton's Online Ministries | Praying Lent Home Page | Praying with our Imaginations
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