And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth”.
He is waiting for us with the Father, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, who raised him, he will also raise those who are united to him.īefore the sealed tomb of his friend Lazarus, Jesus “cried with a loud voice: ‘Lazarus, come out!’. As Jesus is resurrected with his own body, though he does not return to an earthly life, so too will we be raised with our bodies which will have been transfigured into glorified bodies.
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With this word of the Lord we believe that the life of whoever believes in Jesus and follows his Commandment after death will be transformed into new life, full and immortal. Jesus speaks like this: “I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die”. Lazarus had already been dead four days, before Jesus arrived and what he said to the sisters Martha and Mary is engraved forever in the memory of the Christian community. The Gospel of this Fifth Sunday of Lent tells us of the resurrection of Lazarus. It is the culmination of the miraculous “signs” worked by Jesus: this act is too great, too clearly divine to be tolerated by the high priests, who, learning of the fact, decided to kill Jesus (see Jn 11:53 – ‘ From that day onwards they were determined to kill him’ ).
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