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Jesus Christ and Lazarus
How Jesus Christ and Lazarus are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Jesus Christ and Lazarus met.
Jesus loved Lazarus and called him "Our friend Lazarus". Four days after he died, Jesus called him out of the grave, and he came forth bound in graveclothes.
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus
John 11:5, King James Version
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth
John 11:11, King James Version
Lazarus, come forth
John 11:43, King James Version
Where they cross: John 11:38-44
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
John 11:5
5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John 11:11
11These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:38-44
38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42And 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.
43And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44And 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.
King James Version