Summary
Well, the fact that there's a relationship here between Jesus and Mary and Martha and Lazarus, there's this particular closeness there of Jesus and Lazarus. Is there another conjunction here that can come along and give a different picture that can transition to a different picture here? Verse 21, Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. Jesus waited those four days, until Lazarus was in the tomb four days, because the rabbis had this weird, weird teaching, that said, when someone died, the spirit would hover for three days, and if somehow the body could be resuscitated, the spirit could re-enter it, but on the fourth day, all hope was gone. So why does Jesus delay, until Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days so that no one would look at the resurrection of Jesus, and say that dumb teaching of the rabbis was correct. And Martha says in verse 27, when Jesus says, do you believe this, Martha says, yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.
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