John 11:44

The resurrection Miracles and God's intervention Death and loss Grief

⁴² And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

⁴³ And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.

⁴⁶ But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
KJV: And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
WEB: He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
ASV: He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
DARBY: And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.
BLB: The one having been dead came out, the feet and the hands bound with linen strips, and his face bound around in a soudario. Jesus says to them, “Unbind him and allow him to go.”

ÅB: Da kom den døde ut, bundet med liksvøp på føtter og hender, og om hans ansikt var bundet en svededuk. Jesus sier til dem: Løs ham og la ham gå!
OTB: Mannen som hadde vært død kom ut, med hendene og føttene viklet i linstrimler, og et klede rundt ansiktet. Jesus sa til dem: "Ta av gravklærne og la ham gå."
B1930: Da kom den døde ut, bundet med liksvøp på føtter og hender, og om hans ansikt var bundet en svededuk. Jesus sier til dem: Løs ham og la ham gå!

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John 5:25
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
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John 20:7
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
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John 11:25–26
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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Luke 7:15
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
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John 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
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Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Acts 20:9–12
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
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