John Chapter 11 verse 23 Holy Bible
Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
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Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.
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Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.
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Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
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Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
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Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'
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John 11 : 23 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Hengstenberg thinks that the reply of Jesus is a grand dogmatic assertion of the resurrection of the dead, in special application to Lazarus, and it covers the kind of ἀνάστασις which takes place at death, as well as the resurrection at the last day. If so, surely our Lord would have said, "Lazarus is risen again." The Lord does elsewhere speak of the dead as risen, and of their angelic state, and of all the dead living unto God; but he is here speaking of the immediate resurrection of Lazarus from what is called death to that which is called life, and which would be a pledge and type of the final resurrection of all.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Thy brother shall rise again.--These words, spoken as they were by our Lord after the purpose of His journey, as expressed in John 11:11, and immediately before the accomplishment of it, cannot be taken to exclude the restoration of Lazarus to physical life. At the same time, the form of the words clearly point, as Martha understood them to point, to "the resurrection at the last day." They are chosen for this very purpose; to lead her from the passionate longing for her brother's restoration, and from a vague thought of the Lord's power and will to restore him, to a wider and truer conception of what life really is, and to a realisation of the truth that for a true believer in Him there can be no such thing as death. This "sign," like every other, is to be no mere wonder, nor is it to be limited to our restored life. It is to lead to the spiritual truth which is signified; and is to be for them and for mankind the true conquest of death by Life.
