CLEAN – podcast 26, Lazarus

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/clean-podcast-26-lazarus/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Introductory</strong></p><ul><li>For most people, this is far and away the best known reanimation in scripture.</li><li>In the 7th reanimation podcast, Jesus raises a friend.</li><li>I recorded an earlier podcast on <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/lazmp3/">Lazarus (NT Character Podcast 20).</a> You might want to listen before or after today’s podcast.</li><li>Hear also <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/christ-through-the-ages-10-2/">Christ Through the Ages, podcast 10</a>.</li><li>As a result, in order to avoid duplication, I will try to keep my comments to the subject of the reanimation itself. Further, we won’t read every verse in the account.<br /> </li></ul><p><strong>Scriptural study: John 11:1-7, 11-15, 17-27, 32-49a, 51b-53; 12:9-11</strong></p><ul><li>Lazarus (v.1) is not to be identified with the Lazarus in the parable of Luke 16:19-31, although the coincidence of names is intriguing.</li><li>“This illness does not lead to death” (v.4). Of course it <i>does</i> lead to death, but only for a short time.</li><li>Just as with the miracle of the blind man two chapters earlier, God will be glorified (v.4).</li><li>Lazarus is a beloved friend (v.5). We always feel differently when we knew the person who’s died, and never more than when we had a significant relationship.</li><li>A great uncle – 10k – took me fishing. Not close but we’d met several times. Mother father sister</li><li>He delays his visit to Bethany, it seems, precisely in order to make sure that Lazarus has passed.</li><li>Sleep (v.11) is a common biblical metaphor for death. <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/qa-1356-sleeping-dead/">See Q&A 1356</a>.</li><li>This section (vs.17-27) is rich with theology, dense with meaning and insight. Of course Lazarus, the subject of this podcast, isn’t really doing anything. But no one exists to himself alone; there