Is the raising of Lazarus in the New Testament?

Answer 1

Found in the Gospel of John chapter 11, the family of Martha, Mary and Lazarus were good and close friends, you could say they were like immediate family whom Jesus always visited to stay in their house when visiting Jerusalem during His ministry. All three believed Jesus was the Messiah, the Savior of all humankind (see verses 25-27).

Chapter 11 opens up with the sisters sending a message to Jesus that Lazarus' was very ill. They didn't have to ask Him to come because they knew He would surely come to be with His sick friend. But God the Father was going to use this event to glorify His Son, Jesus. Jesus deliberatively delayed coming (see verses 6-7) and arrives late as Lazarus had been death about four(4) days and his body in the sealed cave had already begun to decay.

Jesus tells Martha to have faith (verses 21,23) at which Martha replies she understood the biblical promise of the time of resurrection of all to the judgment process (verse 24). But Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? (verses 25-26). Martha summons Mary who comes out of their house crying in deep sorrow over the loss of their beloved brother Lazarus. "Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. And He said, Where have you laid him? (verses 33-34).

They arrive at the sealed tomb and Jesus command them to remove the stone sealing the entrance way. "Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days. (see verse 39). It ends with Jesus praying to His Father and thanking Him for always hearing Him. He says because of the peoples lack of faith in Him that He would yell out, "Lazarus, come forth!" (verse 43) and the dead Lazarus comes out of the grave still wrapped tightly in the grave clothes. This indeed shows the Glory of God!

The biblical 'death' is akin to sleeping with our human spirits returning to God for safekeeping. He decides when to return these spirits and into which vessels - their first bodies or their resurrected new physical bodies (Ecclesiastes 3:21; 12:7; and Ezekiel 37 all for starters).

Answer 2

That faith and magic are paramount in Christianity, over logic and reason.

Answer 3

yep, sure is (John 11:1-44)