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00:00Brothers, let us then proceed to read the sign of the resurrection of Lazarus
00:28and the consequences of this event. I will now read verses 38 through 44.
00:37Jesus, deeply moved once again, approached the tomb. It was a cave whose entrance was covered with a stone.
00:46Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days.”
00:55Jesus answered, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"
01:04They removed the stone, and Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, "Father, I thank you because you have heard me."
01:11I know you always hear me, but I say this for the good of these people who are here, so that they believe that you sent me.
01:19After saying this, he shouted, "Lazarus, come out of there!"
01:25And the one who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound with bandages and his face wrapped in a cloth.
01:34Jesus said to them, untie him and let him go.
01:37Jesus goes to the tomb.
01:42John says that this tomb had a very large stone as a door, since the tombs were like caves.
01:52And Martha reappears on the scene in verse 39.
01:57So that?
01:58To tell him that he already smells bad.
02:00It must smell very bad by now, because the deceased's body must already be decomposed.
02:07What is Marta doing?
02:09She explains human things to Jesus, things in her human way.
02:16Martha is giving Jesus lessons on how things are and how they should be.
02:22In fact, we can even imagine and feel a discomfort in this woman's tone of voice while reading.
02:33And in response to this comment, Jesus challenges her in verse 40.
02:38Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?
02:42And as he approaches the tomb and asks them to remove the stone, Jesus authoritatively takes center stage.
02:54And the Jews are going to do it.
02:58Jesus then proceeds in verse 41 to lift his eyes to heaven and address his Father in prayer.
03:08Father, I thank you because you have heard me.
03:12And verse 42 continues.
03:14I know you always listen to me.
03:16I speak like this for the benefit of those standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.
03:22Jesus and the Father are one.
03:26He already said it in 838.
03:29But the crowd, including Martha, Mary, the Jews, and even the disciples, still do not believe it.
03:39With the characters, Jesus takes a position of authority, giving orders.
03:46Remove the stone, do this.
03:49But before his Father, he adopts an attitude of dependence, of submission.
03:55And Jesus' prayer, prior to the miracle of raising Lazarus, is to show that his works are in total dependence on and thanks to his union with the Father.
04:10He is not a miracle worker.
04:13He is one with the Father, who always listens to him and who comes to give life and manifest his glory.
04:23But also to manifest the glory he will receive as a son, as an envoy.
04:29And verse 43 continues the narrative.
04:34Having said this, Jesus shouted with a loud voice.
04:38Having said that.
04:40With these words, John wants to show here the unity that exists between prayer to the Father and the miracle.
04:48But the purpose of this miracle is also shown, so that people will believe that He is the one sent by God.
05:00Having full authority over the dead, for he raises them up.
05:05In front of the living, he gives them orders.
05:07They remove the stone.
05:09And then, the dead man comes out.
05:12Yes, in an even ironic and humorous way, we as readers hear in verse 44,
05:23The dead man came out.
05:26Normally, a dead person doesn't come out again.
05:29In fact, a dead person does nothing.
05:31A dead person has no shares.
05:33You can't assign a verb as an action to a dead person.
05:38But evidently, Juan does it that way.
05:41This is how he describes the scene.
05:43And it does so with meticulous detail.
05:46Which we might even consider useless.
05:50Let us remember that in the Gospel of John nothing is a detail.
05:54But we won't understand these details until later.
05:59When John will be present, describing another tomb, other bandages, and another shroud.
06:11Which is it?
06:12At what point?
06:14In the scenes of Jesus' burial.
06:18Of the dead Jesus and to place his corpse in an empty tomb.
06:22And this tomb will be empty once again on the morning of the resurrection.
06:30John speaks again of bandages, of the shroud or the cloth that covers his head, the stone, etc.
06:37Surprisingly, John has told us with the resurrection of Lazarus that we should not dwell on the miraculous event.
06:47This fact, this event has a very clear consequence.
06:52We can say that through the resurrection of Lazarus, the Son of God draws closer to his glorification.
07:01In verse 4 we had already heard, this disease does not lead to death.
07:09This illness leads to the manifestation of the glory of God, the glory of the Son of God.
07:16And then death rises again.
07:19Let's see what happens, what happens with this event, what happens in the mentality of the Jews.
07:26I'm going to read verses 45 through 57.
07:30This is why many of the Jews who had gone to accompany Mary and who saw what he had done believed in Jesus.
07:38But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
07:44Then the Pharisees and the chief priests gathered the Sanhedrin and said,
07:51What will we do? This man is performing many miraculous signs.
07:55If we let him, everyone will believe in him.
07:58And the Roman authorities will come and destroy our temple and our nation.
08:04But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, said to them,
08:10But Caiaphas did not say this on his own; he was high priest that year,
08:30He prophetically said that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, and not only for this nation,
08:38but also to gather together all the children of God who were scattered abroad.
08:43So, from that day on, the Jewish authorities made the decision to kill Jesus.
08:52That is why Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews,
08:56Instead, he left the region of Judea and went to a place near the desert,
09:02to a town called Ephraim.
09:04Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
09:08Passover was approaching, and many people from the villages
09:13He was heading to Jerusalem to celebrate the purification rites before Passover.
09:20The Pharisees were looking for Jesus and were asking each other about him in the temple.
09:26What do you think? Will the party happen or not?
09:30The Pharisees and the chief priests had given orders that,
09:35If anyone knew where Jesus was, they should say so that he could be arrested.
09:42After this surprising event,
09:45Some believe in Jesus, but others do not.
09:49We had already seen this phenomenon among the Jews in the Gospel of John.
09:55A division between those who do believe and those who do not.
09:58We saw it, for example, in chapter 6.
10:01Those who do not believe will tell the Pharisees that Jesus is performing miracles.
10:08They tell you about their actions.
10:11They obviously don't narrate, they don't tell them about his revelation as a son of God,
10:16its revelation as resurrection and life.
10:20Jesus' call to Mary and Martha's invitation to believe,
10:26They don't do it, nor do they narrate it.
10:28And they hardly ever mention the unity that exists between the Father and the Son,
10:35which is expressed in the prayer of verses 41 and 42.
10:39They only recount the miracle, the deeds of Jesus.
10:46A dead man rose.
10:48Then the Sanhedrin, the council of priests,
10:52They meet to decide what to do with this miracle worker.
10:58They see him as someone who performs miracles.
11:02And if they don't stop him, everyone will believe in him.
11:07And when such a movement of the people, of the crowds, of the multitude took place,
11:13Roman authorities may come,
11:17can operate a certain organization of things,
11:22and even a certain order with violence, like police officers.
11:27They need to come and restore order.
11:31But perhaps they will do it their way, by destroying the temple.
11:36And at that time Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,
11:41that year which is the same as the death of Jesus,
11:45He gets up, he says, he takes the floor, in verses 49 and 50,
11:51and he reproaches his colleagues for their lack of judgment.
11:57Don't you know anything?
11:59Don't they understand that it's in their best interest for someone to die for the people?
12:03and that the whole nation not perish,
12:06that the Romans don't come to destroy our country?
12:09And John adds, in verse 51,
12:13He said this not on his own initiative,
12:17but because he was a priest that year,
12:19and therefore, that he could prophesy.
12:23This can be interpreted on various levels.
12:27The opportunity to eradicate Jesus is seen.
12:32And this, in fact, includes the idea of heroic martyrdom,
12:37like death, like the martyrdom of the heroes of a nation or a country.
12:43The leader sacrifices himself, he dies,
12:47and the whole people benefit from freedom.
12:51For the Jews, this was what they had in mind,
12:55the sacrifice of the warrior, the fighter, the one who went to war.
12:59Upon death, the entire people receive God's blessing.
13:06And this, then, the Jews had in mind,
13:08thinking about the Maccabean period in history.
13:11But the interpretation goes even further,
13:16And John discerns it.
13:18He knows, even without understanding,
13:22Caiaphas sees that Jesus' death
13:26It is an opportunity to gather together all of God's scattered children.
13:31Verse 52
13:32The death of Jesus during his hour,
13:38this raising of the earth to receive His glory,
13:43will have as its fruit
13:45the non-death of others,
13:49but die for others.
13:52Here the words of the good shepherd are fulfilled.
13:55To give his life so that the sheep may have life in abundance.
14:01And now, the Sanhedrin has decided to put Jesus to death.
14:05It's already stuck, it's already decided,
14:09Jesus must die.
14:10Jesus is going to die.
14:13And from there,
14:14Jesus hides in a small village
14:16called Ephraim.
14:19And he no longer walks in public.
14:21Who will be the only ones accompanying him?
14:25Only his disciples.
14:28They remember that at the end of chapter 10,
14:30at 10:41,
14:32when they want to stone Jesus,
14:35He goes to the Jordan.
14:36And Juan adds,
14:37Many people come to Him.
14:40Many people approach him.
14:42Here only the disciples.
14:44Now,
14:46to attempt to land
14:48even more so in chapter 11,
14:52Let's go back to verse 2.
14:54Mary described as the one who anointed Jesus' feet.
14:58This event, as we already know,
15:00It will happen later.
15:02Chapter 12.
15:03She is, in a certain sense,
15:06who presents herself as the true disciple of Jesus.
15:09She goes out to meet Jesus,
15:11he kneels at her feet,
15:13Listen to his word,
15:14or hear his voice.
15:16She was saddened by the death of her brother Lazarus,
15:20But, we might ask ourselves,
15:23She accepted the challenge
15:25launched by Jesus,
15:29actually,
15:31truly believe
15:32in Him as the one sent by the Father.
15:35This is what Jesus says in his prayer.
15:38I'm saying it.
15:39so that they may have faith in you.
15:44So,
15:45Mary of Bethany
15:45It is shown as the icon
15:47of the true disciple of Jesus.
15:51And with this, then, we
15:53we can delve deeper now
15:55which will be capital
15:57our following of Christ,
15:58since we are getting closer
16:00to his passion.
16:02That they have
16:03Very good end to the session,
16:06Have a very good day,
16:07and we will continue with these readings
16:09from the Gospel of John.
16:11Meanwhile,
16:12blessings.
16:33Thanks for watching the video.