John 11:43-44

11:43 When ¹  he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, ²  “Lazarus, come out!” 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, ³  and a cloth wrapped around his face. ⁴  Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him ⁵  and let him go.”

John 5:25-29

5:25 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁶  a time ⁷  is coming – and is now here – when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 5:27 and he has granted the Son ⁸  authority to execute judgment, ⁹  because he is the Son of Man.

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ¹⁰  is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 5:29 and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. ¹¹ 

Daniel 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ¹² 

Daniel 12:1

12:1 “At that time Michael,

the great prince who watches over your people, ¹³ 

will arise. ¹⁴ 

There will be a time of distress

unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ¹⁵ 

up to that time.

But at that time your own people,

all those whose names are ¹⁶  found written in the book,

will escape.

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ¹⁷  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Ephesians 5:14

5:14 For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: ¹⁸ 

“Awake, ¹⁹  O sleeper! ²⁰ 

Rise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you!” ²¹ 

[11:43]  ¹ tn Grk “And when.”

[11:43]  ² sn The purpose of the loud voice was probably to ensure that all in the crowd could hear (compare the purpose of the prayer of thanksgiving in vv. 41-42).

[11:44]  ³ sn Many have wondered how Lazarus got out of the tomb if his hands and feet were still tied up with strips of cloth. The author does not tell, and with a miracle of this magnitude, this is not an important fact to know. If Lazarus’ decomposing body was brought back to life by the power of God, then it could certainly have been moved out of the tomb by that same power. Others have suggested that the legs were bound separately, which would remove the difficulty, but the account gives no indication of this. What may be of more significance for the author is the comparison which this picture naturally evokes with the resurrection of Jesus, where the graveclothes stayed in the tomb neatly folded (20:6-7). Jesus, unlike Lazarus, would never need graveclothes again.

[11:44]  ⁴ tn Grk “and his face tied around with cloth.”

[11:44]  ⁵ tn Grk “Loose him.”

[5:25]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[5:25]  ⁷ tn Grk “an hour.”

[5:27]  ⁸ tn Grk “him.”

[5:27]  ⁹ tn Grk “authority to judge.”

[5:28]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “an hour.”

[5:29]  ¹¹ tn Or “a resurrection resulting in judgment.”

[12:2]  ¹² sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.

[12:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “stands over the sons of your people.”

[12:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “will stand up.”

[12:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “from the beginning of a nation.”

[12:1]  ¹⁶ tn The words “whose names are” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

[1:1]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[5:14]  ¹⁸ sn The following passage has been typeset as poetry because many scholars regard this passage as poetic or hymnic. These terms are used broadly to refer to the genre of writing, not to the content. There are two broad criteria for determining if a passage is poetic or hymnic: “(a) stylistic: a certain rhythmical lilt when the passages are read aloud, the presence of parallelismus membrorum (i.e., an arrangement into couplets), the semblance of some metre, and the presence of rhetorical devices such as alliteration, chiasmus, and antithesis; and (b) linguistic: an unusual vocabulary, particularly the presence of theological terms, which is different from the surrounding context” (P. T. O’Brien, Philippians [NIGTC], 188-89). Classifying a passage as hymnic or poetic is important because understanding this genre can provide keys to interpretation. However, not all scholars agree that the above criteria are present in this passage, so the decision to typeset it as poetry should be viewed as a tentative decision about its genre.

[5:14]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “Rise up.”

[5:14]  ²⁰ tn The articular nominative participle ὁ καθεύδων (Jo kaqeudwn) is probably functioning as a nominative for vocative. Thus, it has been translated as “O sleeper.”

[5:14]  ²¹ sn A composite quotation, possibly from Isa 26:19, 51:17, 52:1, and 60:1.