International Sunday School John11:38-44 wk of 01-31-16 by Grover Weaver

Hello everybody this is the Grover Weaver Ministries.org commentary on the International Sunday School Lesson on John 11:38-44, the resurrection of Lazarus for the week of 01-31-2016; it’s a matter of life and death.

Our opening text finds Jesus, our high priest who is at the grave of his beloved friend, Lazarus groaning and grieving and weeping with his family and friends who moan his  death. The Hebrew writer (5:7) presents Christ as our High Priest as one who is touched by our infirmities.

Let’s pray...

Let’s be sure we are talking about a dead man, Jesus plainly said in the 14th verse of the chapter, ‘’Lazarus is dead’’. The non christians don’t believe that a fully human and fully divine can raise another man from the dead down here on earth from the dead. Jesus and John give a response to those thinkings in verses 35, 38 and 39 because if Lazarus was dead in verse 14 and Jesus was both man and God and John shows us him groaning and weeping at his beloved friend’s grave then he is the resurrection and the life when he calls him forth from his grave in verse 43.

None of the people’s doubts or thinking did Jesus focus on other than Martha and Mary, a family who were part of his ministry and provided for his needs when he came to Jerusalem to worship. Jesus loved them dearly, and his heart was impassion for the sisters’ grieve...