What got Jesus killed? It was the undeniable acts of proof of his identity as the son of God; Messiah. …healing moved from internal medicine; to irrefutable healings; opening blind eyes, raised Lazarus from death after 4 days; Pharisees planed to kill Jesus (and Lazarus); all men will follow him; Lazarus - whom you love; waits two days; 12 hours in the day; Jesus was brave!; have to work for the night comes; Jesus asked questions - He didn't know everything; Jesus listened to the Father; he was as one of us; die, sleep; Spirit goes to God; creation of Adam - man became a living soul; body and breath; Word of God - JESUS; alive and powerful; Dead = sleep; Didymus (twin to Jesus); live and believe in me? - NEVER DIE;
Lord, increase our faith.
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John 11:1-53
Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary, whose home was in Bethany, was sick. The sisters sent a message to Jesus, saying:
“Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.”
When the word concerning Lazarus reached Jesus, he said:
“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.”
Jesus remained where he was for two days, and at the end of that time said to his disciples:
“Let us go into Judea again.”
His disciples replied:
“Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee. And goest thou thither again?”
Jesus answered his disciples, saying:
“Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of the world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.”
Then Jesus told his disciples why he wanted to go into Judea, saying:
“Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.”
The disciples, not knowing that Jesus meant that Lazarus was dead, thought only that he was resting in sleep. They said to Jesus:
“Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.”
Then Jesus spoke plainly, saying to them:
“Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.”
Thomas, the disciple who was called Didymus, said:
“Let us go, that we may die with him.”
When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he found that Lazarus was dead and had been in his grave four days.
Because Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs away, many Jews from that city had come to comfort Martha and Mary. When Martha heard that Jesus was approaching, she went out to meet him while Mary remained at home. She...
