#Jesus raised lazarus from the dead series

He's in the district called Perea and he indicated he will go at the right time, and then subsequently, a few days later, he decides to travel across to Bethany and to go to the family home.īoth John and Luke indicate to us that Jesus had an affectionate relationship with this particular family, Mary, Martha and Lazarus, and that's very clear at the end of the last episode, and will be very clear in this episode too. We saw in the beginning of John 11, that Jesus doesn't immediately respond he waits a few days in the district. Jesus was requested to come quickly to Bethany, which was quite a long journey from where he was, and to heal Lazarus. We have Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus, and in the last episode as Jesus was travelling around in the southern part of the country, he received a message from Mary and Martha, which indicated that Lazarus was in danger of dying, was critically ill, and in fact we've subsequently found out that he did die. That's really significant for the story, which we mentioned in the last episode. He identifies their home as the village of Bethany, which is just a few kilometres outside Jerusalem - very close to Jerusalem - and therefore close to the capital city, the Temple, the Sanhedrin, the ruling authorities, Roman governors, military presence. John comes back to this family situation and gives a much more detailed account of the subsequent event. In our last episode, we realised from John's point of view, who introduces us to the same family, that there is a brother also, who is Lazarus. It appears that Martha and Mary were sisters who were probably unmarried there is no reference to their parents, no reference to husbands, and no reference to children, so we may assume their parents weren't there maybe they'd died or something tragic had happened. That was the story that Luke told us in that short passage back there in Luke 10, when he introduced this family situation to the readers at that point. Martha was getting very stressed about it, and Mary was very relaxed and listening to Jesus. There was a particular issue concerning hospitality and how that was going to be provided. We find Jesus visiting two ladies called Mary and Martha and staying in their house.

#Jesus raised lazarus from the dead series

After spending quite a lot of time in Luke's Gospel in Series 9, we are now moving across to John, as we did in the last episode to get the story about this man called Lazarus, who died and was subsequently raised from the dead.Īs I mentioned in the last episode, and I'll say it again just for clarity here, to help you get into this particular section, the family in question were first mentioned by Luke in his narrative back in Series 8, in Luke 10: 38 - 42. That's exactly what's happened, and is happening, in the situation we find here. When we put these two strands together, we get a really interesting narrative building up. He would have had the text of Luke before him and he added in things that he knew and felt were important for the story. Luke takes great trouble to build up the story step-by-step, and then John gives some remarkable additional material, bearing in mind that John almost certainly wrote after Luke.

They're the most important writers for this section of the story of Jesus. The two particular writers we've been looking at, in the last episodes in this series and the last one, are Luke and John. I've told the story on a number of occasions in previous episodes, and this theme is in the back of the minds of the writers at all times.

We've been seeing a big story in Series 8 and 9, as I've mentioned on many occasions previously in different episodes, the big story of Jesus leaving his home area in the north of the country of Israel, Galilee, and travelling south with great determination and purpose in order to end up in Jerusalem, in a final confrontation with the religious authorities of the Jews, which Jesus predicted would lead to his arrest, trial, death, suffering, and then his resurrection. We're going to be studying in John 11: 38 - 57. If you were with us in the last episode, you'll remember the first half of the story which I'll go over in just a minute. This is where 'Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead'. Welcome to Series 9 and Episode 10, it's the second half of the story of Jesus and Lazarus.