“I Am the
Resurrection and
Life” & “The Truth,
Way and the Life”
JOHN 11 AND
JOHN 14
Background:
• Chapter 10 – Pharisees’ and
Sadducees’ aggression
increase
• Jesus crossed the Jordan
(east) where He was baptized
• Chapter 11 – Martha and
Mary sent for Jesus telling
Him Lazarus is sick
• V6: Jesus stayed 2 more
days – huh?
The Story:
• v4 Jesus tells His disciples, “This sickness will not end in death.
No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified
through it.”
• V7 After staying the 2-days, He told His disciples, “Let’s go
back to Judea…”
• V8 The disciples respond, “Didn’t we leave because they
wanted to kill you - and you still want to go back to Judea?”
• V11 Jesus tells them Lazarus is sleeping – the disciples say,
“isn’t it better to let him sleep?”
• V14 Jesus told them, “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am
glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to
him.”
• V16 Thomas (a twin) – warrior’s cry…let’s go and die with Him
• V17 Lazarus already in the tomb four (4) days (In Bethany –
less than 2 miles from Jerusalem)
• V21 Martha – “if only You were here earlier, but God will do
whatever you ask…”
• Jesus stated, “Your brother will live again.”
• Martha, “I know he will be resurrected in the last day.”
• Jesus responded, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who
believes in Me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by
believing in Me will never die.” … Physical death is not the end of
your soul…
• Jesus asks, “Do you believe?”
• V24 Martha’s response, “Yes, Lord,…I believe You are the
Messiah, the Son of God, Who was to come into the world.”
• V28 – 31 Martha returns to their home and tells Mary that
Jesus is asking for her. Mary quickly leaves the home… the
professional mourners follow her…
• V32 Mary fell at Jesus’ feet and said (same thing Martha said),
“If only you were here, he would not have died.”
• V33 – 38 Mary was crying, the mourners were crying, Jesus
wept…
• Because He missed Lazarus, because He was overwhelmed by
the sorrow and tears He confronted? Nope!
• He wept because of the hopelessness He saw – they did not
understand their HOPE … He is the Resurrection and the Life!
• Jesus said, “Take away the stone!”
• Martha stated, “After 4 days, he stinks!”
• V40 “(Remember?), I told you that you, if you believe, you will
see the glory of God.”
• V41 – 42 Jesus prayed, “Father, I thank You that You have
heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me, but I said this for
the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe
that You sent Me.” (we call this a “horizontal prayer”)
• V43 Then Jesus called loudly, “Lazarus come out!”…
V44 Lazarus came out!
His hands and feet were
wrapped with strips of
linen, and a cloth around
his face
Jesus said to them, “Take
off the grave clothes and
let him go.”
• Less than 2 weeks later, the Last
Supper happens…
• Chapter 14: 6, “Jesus answered, ‘I
am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except
through Me (Jesus).’”
• The Way – only way to eternal life –
to the Father
• The Truth – He fulfills ALL that has
been written (Laws and Prophecies)
• The Life – He is the
Resurrection – the very
spark (source) that creates
life now and eternally
• John 1: 3, “Through Him
(Jesus) all things were
made; without Him nothing
was made….”
• “Do you believe?” –
Jesus is still asking…