Messiah Yeshua's
Miracles:
Raising Lazarus from the Dead.
Messiah Yeshua performed many miracles. One of the most spectacular
(and well-described) miracles was raising Lazarus from the dead.
John 11:1-44 [1] 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 Yeshua, "Lord, the one you love is sick." [4] When he heard
this, Yeshua 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] Yeshua loved Martha
and her sister and Lazarus. [6] Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick,
he stayed where he was two more days. [7] Then he said to his disciples,
"Let us go back to Judea." [8] "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago
the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?" [9] Yeshua
answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day
will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light. [10] It is when he walks
by night that he stumbles, for he has 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] Yeshua 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
(called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that
we may die with him." [17] On his arrival, Yeshua found that Lazarus had
already been in the tomb for four days. [18] Bethany was less than two miles
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 Yeshua was
coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. [21] "Lord," Martha
said to Yeshua, "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] Yeshua
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] Yeshua said
to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live,
even though he dies; [26] and whoever lives and believes in me will never
die. Do you believe this?" [27] "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that
you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." [28]
And 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 Yeshua 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
Yeshua 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 Yeshua 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] Yeshua 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 man have kept this man from dying?" [38] Yeshua, 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 Yeshua said, "Did I not tell you that if
you believed, you would see the glory of God?" [41] So they took away the
stone. Then Yeshua 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, Yeshua 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. Yeshua said to them, "Take off the grave clothes
and let him go."
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