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Chapter 6 - Raising the dead

Lazarus of Bethany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Michael Wheeler
Michael Wheeler
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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Summary

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

(John 11.25)

A problematic narrative

In the chapters of the fourth gospel that follow the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, Jesus reveals more clearly to the Jewish people and their outraged leaders that he is the Son of God (John 5.25, 9.35). He does this by ‘signs’, or miracles – healing the impotent man at Bethesda (John 5.9), feeding the five thousand (6.11), walking on the sea (6.19), restoring the sight of the blind man (9.6) – and through arresting teaching: ‘This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent’ (6.29); ‘And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free’ (8.32); ‘For judgment I am come into this world’ (9.39).

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St John and the Victorians , pp. 139 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Raising the dead
  • Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton
  • Book: St John and the Victorians
  • Online publication: 05 December 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979835.010
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  • Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton
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  • Raising the dead
  • Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton
  • Book: St John and the Victorians
  • Online publication: 05 December 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979835.010
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