![]() ![]() In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Saturday before Palm Sunday is celebrated as “Lazarus Saturday” (although because most Eastern churches follow the Julian calendar, the events from Lazarus Saturday up through and including Easter usually fall on a later date than they do in the West). ![]() If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.”Īnd one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, “Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.” And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, “What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. ![]() While the cleansing of the temple appears to be one of the triggering factors that led to the arrest-and eventually the crucifixion-of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John presents the raising of Lazarus as the proximate cause of Jewish leadership’s decision to try to put Jesus to death:īut some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. The raising of Lazarus is an appropriate prelude to a celebration of Holy Week, both because it foreshadowed Jesus’ own coming resurrection and because it seems to have been a major cause in the series of events that led to his arrest and death. ![]() Since Lazarus was a follower of Jesus and put his faith in Him, and given that Lazarus’s resurrection is a picture of our future resurrection (and when we die we go to the present Heaven, to be with the Lord and await our own resurrection), the logical conclusion was that he spent his time between death and resurrection in the present Heaven, what Jesus calls Paradise (Luke 23:43).īrowse more resources on the topic of Heaven, and see Randy’s related books, including Heaven.This post is excerpted from Dr. We are told that to be absent from the body is to be home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). But we can make some deductions based on other Scriptures. So yes, you are correct that Scripture doesn’t directly address Lazarus’s experience between death and when Jesus resurrected him. In all of these cases, the scriptural emphasis is on glorifying God who brings about the resurrection, while there is absolutely no information on what the person experienced during the time they were dead.” Examples include the son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:17-24), Jairus’s daughter (Luke 8:41-56), the widow’s son (Luke 7:12-16), Lazarus (John 11:1-45), and of course, the resurrection of Jesus himself.
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