John 11: 1-2 Study Guide

Jesus' death was an act of love that represents his final testimony to his trust in the faithful and loving God he proclaimed as his father.

Another reference to night is the night before the family is taken to the ghetto, Eliezer explains, “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire, which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left

“Doctor cure yourself” – here Jesus states that it is doubtless that the people of his hometown of Nazareth will approve of him spreading the word of God throughout other towns. He says that they will quote to him, Doctor cure yourself, by which they would be trying to tell Jesus to bring

losing faith in god and everything he has ever learned about the Jewish religion. Night is a tragic story

The spiritual significance of illness and suffering is a topic Christians continue to grapple with, as Larchet points out in The Theology of Illness. Scripture offers a wealth of wisdom and cues for understanding illness, health, and healing from a Christian perspective. Larchet analyzes the various and often contradictory Christian positions on health and illness, revealing how attitudes have shifted over time and with changes in medical technology, practice, and ethics. For example, St. Barsanuphius presents a comprehensive analysis of the spiritual significance of illness and suffering. One view holds that illness signifies a lack of faith; another presents illness in terms of a person who is offered the opportunity to develop a stronger faith, or whose faith is being put to a test like the story of Job. Ultimately, the latter remains the most helpful way to approach illness and healing from a Christian perspective. The essence of Christian health care is that, "Healing itself, while resulting from natural processes, actually comes from God," (Larchet 116).

This statement to “walk in the Light” would seem to suggest that it is not something that we can be as it would probably be written “be the light.” John recognizes that one cannot be the light so he is exhorting the readers to walk in the light which is the sphere in which God resides (Walvoord and Zuck 885). To do this action would be to no longer merely “say” but to do. Walking in the Light is what will restore and keep fellowship with God as Darkness has no place in Him.

Hays’s The Burdens of Disease first chapter “Western Inheritance” discusses how different religions reacted to diseases and sickness. Hays discusses four main religions: the Aclepsian, Hippocratic, Galen, and Christianity. The Cult of Aclepios had the most notable healing traditions of the early Greeks according to Hays. According to Hays those who were sick would go to Aclepios’s temple and have ritual sacrifices, ritual bathing’s, and an “incubation sleep” (pg.9). This slumber would allow them to receive messages on what to do or automatic healing from the god himself.

Jesus is serving His disciples again like He did when He washed their feet (John13:1-17) 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” It’s interesting that Jesus could have prepared for them enough food, so that He would not have to ask them to bring the fish they caught. But He did not do that. He wants us to participate in His work and to have some input.

“By th' clock ’tis day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is ’t night’s predominance or the day’s shame that darkness does the face of Earth entomb when living light should kiss it?” (II, iv, 6-10). Ross along with the old man believe that the acts were not merely coincidental but rather an act of God himself. The conversation they have focuses on the idea of time, explaining that it was day but it felt dark and chilling like night does. The night is often associated with feelings of anxiety, and mystery as well as an overall aura of dark deeds. Ross presents the idea that the kingdom is now stuck in eternal night or darkness because suddenly no one knows what happened to the king and

meaning of this was that the disciples had to be like a lamp and let

When Jesus goes to Jerusalem He finds there a man who is lame, an invalid. This man tells Jesus that he is unable to get to the pool by the sheep gate where the waters can heal him. Jesus could tell that the man had been sick for a very long time; thirty eight years according to John. So, He asked the man if he wanted to get well. Thinking

Jesus is doubted by Lazarus sister, Martha because he had been dead four days. As Jesus arrives at Lazarus' grave He asked the stone to be rolled away and calls Lazarus to come forth. Even though I didn't write on the miracle of Jesus healing the man who was deaf

Jesus had to carry his own cross, that probably weighed two times his size, all the way up to wear the crucifixion was going to take place. Already beaten and bloody, they lay him down onto the cross shaped piece of wood and begin by nailing his hands and feet into it and standing the cross up into the air. What a brutal sight it must have been for God to see his only son tortured like this, but the good news is that he knew what his plan was for Jesus and for his people and he knew what was going to happen after all this was over. Jesus died hanging from that cross, washing all of our sin away and paying the ultimate sacrifice. After he died he was wrapped in a white cloth and placed into a tomb with a boulder sealing the door to the outside world. Three days after being placed in there, the people went to check up on the tomb to find that the boulder was pushed aside and the white cloth was folded neatly where Jesus was laying. The son of God, the Messiah, rose again from the dead to fulfill his mission so that we may have everlasting life in God’s kingdom. God’s plan for our life and through Jesus he teaches us that if we follow in God’s word and make him our most prized possession and ask for him to be in our hearts that we may to “escape the penalty that God will execute upon all who have broken His

Sarah Jones Dr .Helen Martin Survey of New Testament 16 February 2015 John: Chapter 11-21 In chapter 11, Lazarus, one of Jesus’ friends, is sick and his sisters sent a message to Jesus asking for a healing. Jesus took his time getting to Judea because He knew nothing was impossible for Him to do. When Jesus finally arrived to Bethany, Lazarus was dead for four days.

Christians in the first century A.D. The descriptions of the means of death that many