John 11

The Death of Lazarus

Where was Lazarus from? (Verse 1)

Who was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair? (Verse 2)

What word did the sisters send to Jesus? (Verse 3)

What does Jesus say? (verse 4, 7, 9-11, 13-15)

What is said about Jesus? (Verse 5-6, 8, 

Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus

How many days had Lazarus been in the tomb for? (Verse 17)

How close was Bethany to Jerusalem? (Verse 18)

Who went out to meet Jesus? (verse 20)

Who stayed home? (verse 20)

What is said about Jesus? (Verse 21-22, 25-28,30, 32-33, 35, 36, 37, 

When was Jesus deeply moved in spirit and troubled? (Verse 33)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

Deeply moved, where did Jesus go? (Verse 38)

What was laid across the entrance? (Verse 38)

What did Jesus command? (Verse 39)

What did Jesus say before they took away the stone? (Verse 40)

What did they take away? (Verse 41)

Who did Jesus call out? (verse 43), (1, 2, 3)

Who came out? (Verse 44) (verse 43, (1, 2, 3)

The Plot to Kill Jesus

Who believed in Jesus when they had seen wheat He did? (Verse 45)

What did others do? (Verse 46)

What did Caiaphas say? (Verse 49-53)

How did Jesus move about after that meeting? (Verse 54)

When were the chief priests and Pharisees expecting to find and catch Jesus? (Verse 55-57)

Interpretation

What was Jesus saying in verses 9 and 10?

What did Thomas believe would happen to Jesus if He went back? (verse 16)

Who did the chief priests and Pharisees fear? (Verse 45-48)

Thoughts

What do the names mean?

In Greek the meaning of the name Lazarus is: God is my help.

From the name of a biblical town, possibly derived from Hebrew בֵּית־תְּאֵנָה (beit-te'enah) meaning "house of figs". 

Hebrew Meaning: The name Mary is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Mary is: Wished-for child; rebellion; bitter. 

Aramaic Meaning: The name Martha is an Aramaic baby name. In Aramaic the meaning of the name Martha is: Lady.

The proper name Jesus /ˈdʒiːzəs/ used in the English language originates from the Latin form of the Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous), a rendition of the Hebrew Yeshua (ישוע), also having the variants Joshua or Jeshua. The name is thus related to the Hebrew verb root √yšʿ "rescue, deliver" and one of its noun forms, yešuaʿ "deliverance".

The name "Shalem", whether as a town or a deity, is derived from the same root as the word "shalom", meaning peace, so that the common interpretation of the name is now "The City of Peace" or "Abode of Peace". Other midrashim say that Jerusalem means "City of Peace".

Joseph Caiaphas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiaphas

The Hebrew version of Joseph, Yosef (יוֹסֵף), translates as meaning "Yahweh will/shall increase/add," or "He will add."^[1] This name in turn originates from the Hebrew verb yasap (יסף), which means "to add, increase, or repeat."

The name Ephraim is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Ephraim is: Fruitful. Famous bearer: one of the Biblical Old Testament Joseph's sons.

"But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (verse 22)

How often do we pray with this faith?

When was Jesus deeply moved in spirit and troubled? (Verse 33)

But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind manhave kept this man from dying?” - verse 37

Jesus wept. - verse 35

Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” (verse 41-42)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” - 44

Application

"Take off the grave clothes"
Jesus has called each one of us into new life.
Although I can't smell, I can imagine.
The old smell of death passes away
the stench of the old sin he has raised us from
is not becoming in the new life He has called us into

Have Faith! and “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”!

John 11New International Version (NIV)

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”

9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus

17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles[b] from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God,who is to come into the world.”

28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35 Jesus wept.

36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind manhave kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.

54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

Footnotes:

1. John 11:16 Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.
2. John 11:18 Or about 3 kilometers