Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                                   Chapter Eleven

                                                                                                                                               Verses 17-27

When Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been in his grave for four days. Many had come to comfort Martha and Mary, so Jesus had many witnesses to the miracle He was about to do.

Martha went to meet Jesus, but Mary stayed in their house. This could indicate that Mary was angry with Jesus for not coming to heal her brother while he was sick. Her attitude, as well as that of Jesus' disciples, indicated that they believed Jesus could heal the sick but not raise the dead. Martha also displayed that attitude when she told Jesus that He should have come to heal her brother before he died. But then the Holy Spirit must have imparted to Martha some of that greater faith that Jesus meant to teach them when she told Jesus that she knew that God would give to Jesus whatever He asked.

Jesus' reply to Martha had a double meaning. Jesus meant that He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead, but He also meant that He would permanently raise Lazarus' body from the dead in the Rapture of the Church.

Martha, who knew nothing about the Rapture of the Church, replied that she knew that God would raise Lazarus from the dead in a general resurrection at the last judgment in the last day in the end of the world, which doctrine was taught in the Old Testament.

Jesus specifically answered to her faith in Lazarus' resurrection in the last day. Jesus told her that He was the resurrection, and He was life itself, and that whoever believed in Him "though He were dead, yet shall he live." But Jesus also spoke to whoever would read the King James Bible. If the Greek Text states that when a believer dies then that believer will live again with a new body, then that doctrine has to be undoubtedly true. But the King James Bible, which happens to be the inerrant and infallible Word of God in English, has Jesus state that if a person who is already dead believes, then Christ will raise that person from the dead as well. God spoke the truth in both the Greek Text and in the KJB. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Isaiah 45:20-25.

God has perfected His Word in three languages. In the Masorectic Text, God perfected His Word in Hebrew. In the New Testament Text, God perfected His Word in Greek. But when God began to spread His Word to the new world after the discovery of America, He perfected His Word in English, the KJB. Psalm 12:6-7. According to the prophecy in Psalm 12:6-7, God will perfect His Word four more times but in heavenly languages corresponding to the seven Spirits of God. Revelation 5:5-7.