The Raising of Lazarus (John 11:1 -12:11)

"Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again." To Martha Jesus said this. Words of comfort they were, designed to lift up a soul bowed down with grief, on account of the death of a brother. Just before he had passed away, when it had become plain that the illness that had layed him low was to result in death, the two sisters, Martha and Mary, had sent a mes­senger to Jesus with the tiding. "Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." "This sickness is not unto death. . . ." that is, the...