Episode 331 The Resurrection of Lazarus (John 11:1-44)

This week we read John 11:1-44, the story of Lazarus being resurrected from the dead. We see the fully human Jesus unfold and bloom in this story – a Jesus who must hold back from healing someone for whom he holds a particular love, a Jesus who weeps for a man’s death before he calls him back to life. We hear this Jesus say “I am the resurrection” – the light, the word, and now even the resurrection. In just one chapter, he embodies the biggest and most abstract realities, and also walks into the depths and particularities of human suffering.