49-Lazarus-Endnotes

LAZARUS� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}

[1]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:22-23 - They were celebrating Hanukkah [The Feast of Dedication] just then in Jerusalem.� It was winter.� Jesus was strolling in the Temple across Solomon's Porch.

[2]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:24 - The Jews, circling him, said, "How long are you going to keep us guessing?� If you're the Messiah, tell us straight out."

[3]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:30 - "I and the Father are one heart and mind."

[4]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:33b - "You said ~ this blasphemy of calling yourself God."

[5]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:31 - Again the Jews picked up rocks to throw at him.

[6]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1, 14a [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....The Word became flesh.

[7]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:40 - He went back across the Jordan top the place where John first baptized, and stayed there.

[8]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:31 - Just then some Pharisees came up and said, "Run for your life!� Herod's on the hunt.� He's out to kill you!"

[9]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:32-34a - Jesus said, "Tell that fox that I've no time for him right now.� Today and tomorrow I'm busy clearing out the demons and healing the sick; the third day I'm wrapping things up.� Besides, it's not proper for a prophet to come to a bad end outside Jerusalem.� 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of prophets.' "

[10]�� SEE THE BIBLE, LUKE 15 for parables of lost sheep, lost coin, lost son

[11]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:3 - So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Master, the one you love so very much is sick."

[12]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:1 - A man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

[13]�� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 8:37-39 [NIV] - In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.� For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[14]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:4 - When Jesus got the message, he said, "This sickness is not fatal.� It will become an occasion to show God's glory by glorifying God's Son."

[15]�� SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "Power House"

[16]�� THE BIBLE, JOB 19:25-27 - "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.� And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes - I, and not another.� How my heart yearns within me!"

[17]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:44b [NIV] - His hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth around his face.

[18]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:17b - He found Lazarus already four days dead.

[19]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:9-10 - Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight?� Anyone who walks in daylight doesn't stumble, because there's plenty of light from the sun.� Walking at night, he might very well stumble because he can't see where he's going."

[20]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:11 - He said these things, and then announced, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep.� I'm going to wake him up.&"

[21]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:13-14a - The disciples said, "Master, if he's gone to sleep, he'll get a good rest and wake up feeling fine." Jesus was talking about death, while his disciples thought he was talking about taking a nap.� Then Jesus became explicit:� "Lazarus died.� And I am glad for your sakes that I wasn't there.� You're about to be given new grounds for believing.� Now let's go to him."

[22]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:7b-8 - He said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."� They said, "Rabbi, you can't do that.� The Jews are out to kill you, and you're going back?"

[23]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:16 - That's when Thomas, the one called the Twin, said to his companions, "Come along.� We might as well die with him."

[24]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:18 - Bethany was near Jerusalem, only a couple of miles away.

[25]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:20 - Martha heard Jesus was coming and went out to meet him.� Mary remained in the house.

[26]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:21 - Martha said, "Master, if you'd been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

[27]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:22 - "Even now, I know that whatever you ask God he will give you."

[28]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:23 - Jesus said, "Your brother will be raised up."

[29]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:24 - Martha replied, "I know that he will be raised up in the resurrection at the end of time."

[30]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:25-26 - "You don't have to wait for the End.� I am, right now, Resurrection and Life.� The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live.� And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all.� Do you believe this?"

[31]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:27 - "Yes, Master.� All along I have believed that you are the Messiah, the Son of God who comes into the world."

[32]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:19 - Many of the Jews were visiting Martha and Mary, sympathizing with them over their brother.

[33]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:28 - After saying this, she went to her sister Mary and whispered in her ear, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

[34]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:29-30 - The moment she heard that, she jumped up and ran out to him.� Jesus had not yet entered the town but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

[35]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:31 - When her sympathizing Jewish friends saw Mary run off, they followed her, thinking she was on her way to the tomb to weep there.

[36]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:32 - Mary came to where Jesus was waiting and fell at his feet, saying, "Master, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died."

[37]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:33 - When Jesus saw her sobbing and the Jews with her sobbing, a deep anger welled up within him.

[38]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:34 - He said, "Where did you put him?"� "Master, come and see,"; they said.

[39]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 11:35 - Now Jesus wept.

[40]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:36-37 - The Jews said, "Look how deeply he loved him."� Others among them said, "Well, if he loved him so much, why didn't he do something to keep him from dying?� After all, he opened the eyes of a blind man."

[41]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:38 - Then Jesus, the anger again welling up within him, arrived at the tomb.� It was a simple cave in the hillside with a slab of stone laid against it.

[42]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:39 - Jesus said, "Remove the stone."� The sister of the dead man, Martha, said, "Master, by this time there's a stench.� He's been dead four days!"� SEE ALSO VOLUME VII, SHADOW OF DEATH, "Dawn Eyes"

[43]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:40 - Jesus looked her in the eye.� "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"

[44]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:2-3 - Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God's angel came down from heaven, came right up to where they were standing.� He tolled back the stone and then sat on it.� Shafts of lightning blazed from him.� His garments shimmered snow-white.

[45]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:41a - They removed the stone.

[46]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:42b-43 - Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and prayed, "Father, I'm grateful that you have listened to me.� I know you always do listen, but on account of this crowd standing here I've spoken so that they might believe that you sent me." Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!"

[47]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:39 - Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, came now in broad daylight carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.� SEE ALSO VOLUME VII, SHADOW OF DEATH, "Sleeping Giant"

[48]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:44a [NIV] - The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

[49]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:44b - Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."

[50]�� www.biblehistory.net/Chap5 - Julian, Romans Emperor 361 to 363 AD and enemy of Christianity said, "Jesus....has now been celebrated about three hundred years; having done nothing in his lifetime worthy of fame, unless anyone thinks it a very great work to heal lame and blind people and exercise demons in the villages of Bethsaida and Bethany."

[51]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:45-46 - That was a turnaround for many of the Jews who were with Mary.� They saw what Jesus did, and believed in him.� But some went back to the Pharisees and told on Jesus.

[52]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:47 - The high priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Jewish ruling body.� "What do we do now?" they asked.� "This man keeps on doing things, creating God-signs."

[53]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:48 - "If we let him go on, pretty soon everyone will be believing in him and the Romans will come and remove what little power and privilege we still have."

[54]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:49 - Then one of them ~ it was Caiaphas, the designated Chief Priest that year ~ spoke up.� "Don't you know anything?"

[55]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:51, 53 - "Can't you see that it's to our advantage that one man dies for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed?"....From that day on, they plotted to kill him.

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