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It is not so much that Jesus sent Lazarus to hell for four days, as that he seems to have deliberately delayed his arrival until John had been dead for four days. John 11:5 tells us that Jesus loved Mary and Martha, whose brother, Lazarus, he raised from the dead. Jewish tradition said that the soul departs the body after three days, so that resurrection must no longer be possible. We are repeatedly told that Lazarus has been dead four days and his body stinks, yet Jesus commands him to rise up out of his tomb and he came forth.
An explanation of this is in the history of the passage. In the only other known record of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Luke 10:38-42 contains a brief story of Jesus visiting the sisters Mary and Martha in a village and another story in which Jesus tells a parable about Lazarus that mentions his death and resurrection hypothetically. John 11:5 tells us that Jesus loved Mary and Martha, whose brother, Lazarus, he later raises from the dead. The coincidences of name, death and hypothetical or actual resurrection of Lazarus is taken as strong evidence that the concept was taken by the author of John from Luke's Gospel. The author knew that resurrection after more than three days was regarded as impossible, so conspicuously wrote this as a story of Jesus raising Lazarus after four days.
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Where does the bible describe hell?
In Luke 16:19-31, Jesus' parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus.
Was Lazarus in hell before Jesus resurrected him?
A:The story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is found in John's Gospel, which does not say or speculate whether John was in either heaven or hell, so it is left to us to speculate on this. To do so, we need to establish what the author of John's Gospel knew about Lazarus. There is a parable in Luke's Gospel, where Jesus tells of Lazarus dying and going down to hell where he meets a rich man being punished for his sins. The rich man asks for Lazarus to be raised from the dead so that he can warn his friends of the fate that awaits them. This Lazarus was not intended to be understood as a real person and is clearly not the Lazarus of John's Gospel. It is important to note that in both gospels and nowhere else, Martha and Mary are sisters and friends of Jesus.We now know that the anonymous author of John's Gospel relied on Luke's Gospel for much of his material about Jesus. In this Gospel, Lazarus is the brother of Martha and Mary, and when Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead it is no longer a parable. Although it is clear that John's account was inspired by Luke's, we can not take from Luke that Lazarus was in hell. It is intended as a different story, and we can not say whether Lazarus was in hell.Answer:Though the Gospels tell of two people named Lazarus, you are clearly asking about the 'friend' of Jesus in John's work.The simple answer is Yes, he was as far as the English translations present. The most commonly used term that is translated as 'hell' is Sheol in the Hebrew and Hades in the Greek - this being the New Testament, the Greek Hades is used. It simply means the 'grave or pit (tomb)' where people's bodies were placed when they died. It is the common fate of all humans - even Jesus Christ for 3 days and 3 nights went to the tomb (hell).The modern ideas about hell in many mainstream Christian Churches will not be found in the Scripture but in literary works - the most prevalent ideas come from 'Dante's Inferno.' The Bible tells us that when we die, our human spirit goes back to God in Heaven for safekeeping - until the time of Judgement. The body returns to the ground (clay) from which it was created:Ecclesiastes 12:7New King James Version (NKJV) 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,And the spirit will return to God who gave it.
What did Jesus do for lazarus?
Lazarus was raised from the dead by Jesus. He was a brother of Mary and Martha, living in Bethany. Found in John, chapter 11. Jesus spoke of another Lazarus, who was poor, sitting and begging at the gate of a rich man's home. This beggar died and went to "Abraham's bosom," a way of saying that he went to paradise. The rich man, who didn't care about the needs of the poor beggar, also died, but went to Hell, where he was in torments. Found in Luke 16:19-31.
Where in the New Testament can you read about Lazarus?
The parable of the beggar Lazarus in heaven and the rich man in hell are recorded in Luke 16:19 onward. John 11 records the events of Jesus' bringing back to life Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha.
What religion believes that Jesus went to hell for three days?
christianity
Who was the father of Mary and Martha and lazarus?
The story of Martha, Mary and Lazarus is to be found in John's Gospel only. It is never mentioned in any of the other gospels, although John says that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after several days, in possibly his greatest miracle. However, Martha, Mary and Lazarus are mentioned in Luke's Gospel.in two stories that are different yet surprisingly parallel to the one story in John's Gospel.In Luke's Gospel, Martha and Mary are sisters and friends of Jesus, but do not have a brother called Lazarus. Jesus tells a parable of Lazarus dying and going down to hell where he meets a rich man being punished for his sins. The rich man asks for Lazarus to be raised from the dead so that he can warn his friends of the fate that awaits them. The close parallels are a reminder that John's Gospel is actually based on Luke's Gospel, so that John's one story of Martha, Mary and Lazarus was inspired by Luke's two different stories.Martha, Mary and Lazarus were not real people and had no father.
How long was lazarus dead?
The Bible doesn't elaborate on that as the event was to explain death as sleeping in the tomb (see John 11:11-14). This 'resurrection' was to show the people that Jesus truly is God and can raise the dead - which He will do for all who died at the Judgment process (not a sentencing trial but a chance to repent with full knowledge of God and His Law as it will be written upon their hearts - Ezekiel 11: 18-20).Popular teachings have the dead going immediately to either their reward in heaven or their eternal punishment in hell. This is not biblical but more philosophical (Egyptian, Greek and Babylonian). This example of Lazarus is just one of the teachings on death as sleep. In this event, Lazarus had not gone to either heaven or hell. He had been simply entombed, where he "slept" in death until Jesus called him out of the grave by a miraculous resurrection. It doesn't get any plainer than that.Various stories through the years had Lazarus living either until Jesus' resurrection or a full life of the time. No one knows for sure except that he, like all mankind is surely dead now awaiting the Judgment call.
How does the death and resurrection of Lazarus foreshadow Christ's?
A:To provide a complete and honest answer to this, we need to look at the context in which the story of the death and resurrection of Lazarus was written. First, there are two parallel biblical stories of the death and resurrection of Lazarus. In Luke's Gospel, Martha and Mary are sisters and friends of Jesus, but do not have a brother called Lazarus. Jesus tells a parable of Lazarus dying and going down to hell where he meets a rich man being punished for his sins. The rich man asks for Lazarus to be raised from the dead so that he can warn his friends of the fate that awaits them.Only John's Gospel Gospel says that Lazarus was the brother of Jesus' very close friends, Martha and Mary. For theological reasons, the author of John wanted to make the resurrection of Lazarus the final trigger for the arrest of Jesus, instead of the cleansing of the Temple, as in the synoptic gospels. He therefore moved the Cleansing of the Temple to the beginning of his story, almost immediately after Jesus met John the Baptist. In John 12:19, the turning point is identified: "The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.") This certainly provides a link between the death of Lazarus and that of Jesus.The majority view of modern New Testament scholars is that John's Gospel was loosely based on Luke's Gospel, although with some material taken direct from Mark. Thus, when we see Mary, Martha and Lazarus only in the two gospels and in quite parallel but different stories, we can understand that the author of John's Gospel was inspired by the parable in Luke's Gospel but chose to change it from a parable to the most important miracle in the entire mission of Jesus. We can also understand that Lazarus, as described in John's Gospel, was no more a real person than the Lazarus of Luke's parable.Perhaps we can say that any story of death and resurrection foreshadow the death and resurrection of Jesus. But there are important differences. Lazarus died of an illness, whereas Jesus was crucified. Lazarus was dead for more than three days, an important milestone, as the ancients believed that the soul finally leaves the body at the end of three days, making a subsequent resurrection a most exceptional miracle. Jesus is reported to have been dead from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning - about one and a half days. The tomb of Lazarus was opened for Jesus when he asked to be allowed in; the tomb of Jesus was opened in mysterious circumstances which vary from gospel to gospel.
How did Lasarus die the second death?
A:The similarity of the stories of Lazarus, Martha and Mary in Luke's Gospel and John's Gospel can lead the casual reader to believe that the same Lazarus died and was resurrected twice. The confusion can be cleared up by understanding that John's Gospel was actually inspired by Luke's Gospel. It can then be understood that the author of John took the story from Luke and reworked it, producing a completely different but parallel story about Lazarus. In Luke's Gospel, Martha and Mary are sisters and friends of Jesus, but are not related to Lazarus. Jesus tells a parable of Lazarus dying and going down to hell where he meets a rich man being punished for his sins. The rich man asks for Lazarus to be raised from the dead so that he can warn his friends of the fate that awaits them. This Lazarus was not intended to be understood as a real person.John's Gospel says that Lazarus was the brother of Jesus' very close friends, Martha and Mary. His exact cause of death was unimportant, because Jesus was to raise Lazarus from the dead after several days. Having been raised from the dead, Lazarus was still mortal and would die again one day. The gospel does not say anything about the final death of Lazarus, although it does say that the priests talked about having Lazarus killed (John 12:10).For theological reasons, the author of John wanted to make the resurrection of Lazarus the final trigger for the arrest of Jesus. He therefore moved the Cleansing of the Temple out of the way, to the beginning of his story, almost immediately after Jesus met John the Baptist. In John 12:19, the turning point is identified: "The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.")
Did Jesus take a flower into hell with him?
The bible never states that Jesus went to hell. There is no mention of Jesus taking a flower into hell with him.
Was the Lazarus who died poor the same as the one Jesus raised?
A:No, there are two persons called Lazarus in the New Testament, however the story of the second Lazarus (in John's gospel) does seem to have been inspired by the first. The first Lazarus is in a parable in Luke's Gospel, where Jesus tells a parable of Lazarus dying and going down to hell where he meets a rich man being punished for his sins. The rich man asks for Lazarus to be raised from the dead so that he can warn his friends of the fate that awaits them. This Lazarus was not intended to be understood as a real person. Here, Martha and Mary are poor people from an unnamed village, sisters and friends of Jesus.In John's Gospel, Martha and Mary are also sisters and friends of Jesus, but apparently wealthy. These sisters have a brother called Lazarus whom Jesus really does raise from the dead. The close parallels are a reminder that John's Gospel is actually based on Luke's Gospel, so that John's one story of Martha, Mary and Lazarus was inspired by Luke's two different stories. Although the account appears intended to be read literally, the literary parallels tell us Lazarus was not a real person either.
What book in the bible states that Jesus went to hell for 3 days?
This is not stated anywhere in the New Testament.
