To return to the image of Lazarus, you feel the call to come out of the tomb, to live in a new way, whether it’s letting go of a particular habit, like being mean, or moving into a whole new way ...

Only then, after even Martha has given up hoping that her brother might be saved, does Jesus command Lazarus to come out of the tomb. This is not tragedy—the story does not end in suffering. Nor is it ...

Examine, for example, the attention John’s gospel gives to difference between Lazarus coming out of the tomb bound in his burial clothes and Jesus leaving the tomb with his “linen cloths lying ...

Let’s continue the story with Lazarus lying in his tomb. Jesus greets Martha’s sister ... "Jesus called in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out!' The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped ...

Nevertheless Jesus presses on and shouts “Lazarus come out”. Lazarus walks out of the tomb still wrapped in his grave clothes. Jesus says “take off his grave clothes and let him go”.

He prevails. “Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands …” In the end, Jesus always wins. You can skip right to ...