John 11
Notes
Transcript
26th March 2017
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Praise: Psalm 25 v 1-9
Praise: Para 58
Praise: Hymn 475
Praise: Para 63
Reading: John 11
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 Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4
When he heard this, Jesus 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 Now Jesus loved
Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he
stayed where he was two more days,7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us
go back to Judea.”
8
“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone
you, and yet you are going back?”
9
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in
the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.10 It is when a
person walks at night that they stumble, for they have 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 Jesus 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 (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let
us also go, that we may die with him.”
17
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four
days. 18 Now 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 Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him,
but Mary stayed at home.
21
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “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
Jesus 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
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in
me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will
never die. Do you believe this?”
27
“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of
God, who is to come into the world.”
28
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 Jesus 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 Jesus 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 Jesus 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
Jesus 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
Jesus, 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
odour, for he has been there four days.”
40
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of
God?”
41
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus 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, Jesus 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.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
45
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what
Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told
them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a
meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many
signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the
Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49
Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,spoke up,
“You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one
man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51
He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that
Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for
the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So
from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54
Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of
Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called
Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the
country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They
kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one
another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the
chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out
where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
3.30pm Sunday school (church hall) for all P1-S2 children
6pm – Rev Murdo Smith
Praise: Psalm 100
Praise: Hymn 693
Praise: Hymn 25
Praise: Para 48 v 5-9
The Week Ahead
Mon 27th March 7.30pm – Bible study (church hall)
Wed 29th Mar - 10.15am - women’s bible study at Joey Kennedy’s house, 105
Cross Skigersta Rd. All women most welcome
Wed 29th Mar -7.30pm – midweek prayer meeting(church hall)
Services next Sunday 2nd April 2017
11am (church hall) – Mr Murdo Macdonald (Martin’s Memorial)
6pm (church hall) – Mr Chris Barrowman