When Lazarus was dead for four days, his body already stinking in his tomb, Jesus said to his sister Martha, 'I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?' (John 11:25, KJV) With those words already said, Jesus proved his claim by raising Lazarus from the dead, as recorded in the Scripture:
Hey, you don't have to die! For Jesus Christ already paid the price, so that whosoever believes can have eternal life!
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:38-44, KJV)Now many believed in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God. But because of the same thing, the council gathered and plot against Jesus, and there the Scripture reveals the price Jesus paid for us so that we could have eternal life:
And 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; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. (John 11:49-53, KJV)
Hey, you don't have to die! For Jesus Christ already paid the price, so that whosoever believes can have eternal life!
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