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Chapter is about one event.

And that's the raising of Lazarus from the dead Lazarus was the member of a little family.

We only know, three of them Lazarus and his two sisters, Mary and Martha.

We don't know a lot about them except that they were a host family to Jesus and that he had come to know them very well to the degree that he not only love them with the spiritual and divine love but he loved them with a personal affection.

They were a group of believers who believe that Jesus was the Christ, the son of God, they believed he was the one who had come down from heaven and Martha gives testimony to that in this chapter.

So this is a family that he had come to know and love not just as his children, but for whom he had a personal affection that Drew out of him, a very painful experience when he came to the tomb and stepped into the situation of all.

These people would come around to mourn and weep and wail over the loss of this family.

Mary and Martha were weeping over the loss of their brother in Jesus stepped into that situation and it doesn't just them weeping.

It was a huge crowd chapter 11 tells us of mourners.

They're there would always be professional Wailers.

People who did that very well and sort of ignited the Wailing, then there would be the legitimate mourners who are sorrowful.

They apparently came from many places in verse 19.

It says, many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to consoled them about their brother.

This is Jewish tradition would last for 7 days, and then they would go back to their own homes with sort of commit themselves to being available for comfort and consolation for.

Of at least 30 days.

This is a community event that is going on and Jesus steps into it.

Lazarus has been in the ground for 4 days.

And after 3 days, complete decomposition is set in Jesus arrives and he comes to the tomb, he is sorrowful.

He's sad.

It isn't just that he's weeping because he lost a friend.

It isn't just that he's weeping because he sees the pain of these two ladies over the loss of their brother.

He's not weeping because the community feels bad about it.

There's a kind of Agony.

He not only loses a friend in this, he not only sees that sorrow, but he's able to process immediately.

The sorrow of every death in every human relationship in every human family.

He can project his omniscience to grasp all of human sorrow and suffering in the face of death.

Not only that.

He's surrounded by unbelief, a whole nation of unbelievers.

And even by the tomb, and in the home, they're a group of unbelievers.

So he's literally in golfed in unbelief.

He also grasps the reality of death and eternal punishment and eternal judgement.

So this is an agonizing moment for Jesus matched.

Only by his Agony in the garden where he comes to face-to-face, confrontation with sin, which he himself will bear.

This takes his w**** to another level.

But here I think is the greatest Agony in the life of Jesus up to this point, as he faces, the deadly reality, and the Eternal consequences of death and how far-reaching it is.

In the agony.

He comes to the tomb and in verses 43 and 44.

He says, Lazarus come out out.

Came the man who died bound hand and foot with wrappings and his face was wrapped around with a cloth and Jesus said to them, I'm buying him and letting go And the curtain Falls, we don't know anything more about that scene.

We have no further information.

We don't know anything about the reunions of Mary and Martha.

We don't know anything about the shock and all that must have just literally Ward through the mourners.

We don't know anything about that.

We don't know anything about the conversation, the Lazarus had after this.

You can imagine the questions.

Can you tell us where you were?

Can you tell us what you saw?

What was it?

Like we have no information.

Why not?

Because it isn't about the psychology of reunions.

This isn't about the rest of Lazarus life.

This isn't about our curiosity of Heaven.

What is this about verse for says?

This sickness is not meant for death.

But as for the glory of God so that the Son of God may be glorified in it.

All we're interested in is the glory of the Sun and what he said, Lazarus come out and in a moment Lazarus was standing there.

That's the point of the story.

The rest is irrelevant.

In fact, and verse 40.

Jesus says to Martha, did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God and they The purpose of this was to bring glory to God and glory to God incarnate the Lord Jesus Christ.

So when the curtain fell last time at the end of verse 44, the CNN's.

So we pick it up and verse 45 and this is an important final scene in this incredible drama.

But before we look at it, I'm going to tell you.

This is the aftermath, this is the effect here come the responses and they are predictable their predictable because we see them all throughout the Gospel of John.

But before we look at that, I want to remind you about a statement made by Peter.

Peter was preaching in Jerusalem in the temple, Courtyard, with the masses of Jewish people there.

It was his second sermon after the Ascension of Christ.

After the day of Pentecost, after the birth of the church in dites, the Jews with an astonishing accusation.

He says to them and ask 315, you put to death the Prince of Life.

You killed the Prince of Life, how ironic you killed the life Giver.

John 1334 says all things came into being through him and apart from him.

Not even one thing came into being that has come into being in him was life.

And the life was the light of mankind later.

As we've seen.

He says, I am the resurrection and the life.

I am the way, the truth and the life.

He doesn't give life.

He is life.

You killed the Prince of Life more.

Ironically.

Peter says, Xanax 314, but you diss on the holy and righteous one, and ask for a murderer to be granted to you.

You killed the Prince of Life and you gave life to a killer.

That's the nature of unbelief and the crime has no parallel.

It's without equal and its magnitude.

It have been the desire of the religious leaders in Israel to kill Jesus for a long time.

And it now reaches a point where they cannot let him live any longer.

This miracle is the final boiling point.

And so this raising of Lazarus triggers our desire to kill him now and not wait, which is part of God's plan because God wants him to be the sacrificial, lamb the next week on Friday at the Passover.

They don't know that of course, but they're not operating on their schedule.

They're operating on God's, they've tried to kill him before.

But now after this miracle, they can't wait any longer.

In fact, it's all sort of summed up down and verses, 47 48, when they call a council and they say, What are we doing in regard to the fact that this man is performing many signs.

If we let him go on like this, all the people will believe in him and the Romans will come and take over both our place and our nation completely oblivious to the fact that he raised the dead man.

On top of everything else.

Remember.

It's a radical claim for someone to say, he is God and is to be summarily rejected.

No matter who says it with one exception and that's Jesus.

He said he was God.

And then he demonstrated the truth of that claim.