https://followjesus.jesusrocksau.com/2-the-resurrection-and-the-life/ A journey with Jesus through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://followjesus.jesusrocksau.com/2-the-resurrection-and-the-life/#comment-19 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 02:22:18 +0000 https://followjesus.jesusrocksau.com/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2859#comment-19 I see in this passage belief mixed with confusion on one hand, and unbelief on the other.
“Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” (Martha)
“Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.” (Mary)
Both Mary and Martha believed that Jesus could perform miracles, but they we limited to their human understand of what the miracles could be. Here they were now in a hopeless situation (Lazarus had been dead for 4 days), which seemed to them beyond a miracle.
Even when Jesus said to Martha that her brother would rise, and that He was the resurrection and the life, she didn’t comprehend what He meant. She didn’t expect a miracle that very day.
In response to the situation, Jesus was sorrowful and wept. To some that would seem that Jesus saw the hopeless situation. When the Jewish comforters saw how much Jesus loved Lazarus, expressed their unbelief.
“Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

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