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  COMMENTARY ON JOHN 11-12
  by Chuck Smith
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The gospel according to John, chapter 11.

Now we remember that John is carefully picking out certain incidents in
the life of Jesus by which he might prove that Jesus was the Messiah,
the Son of the living God, bringing people to a faith in Him, as such,
that through that faith they might have the life of Christ imparted to
them. And he testifies there were many other things that Jesus did which
he did not record, but these he recorded that you might believe. And so
John is writing from a slant, trying to encourage faith. At the end of
the epistle, he again declared that if all of the things were written
that should be written, all of the libraries could not hold the books
that should be written on the subject of Jesus Christ. So, he is
carefully choosing certain events, and he has been pointing out
different types of miracles that Jesus did. And in our last study, we
studied the miracle of the man who was born blind. And the proof that it
offered, that no man can open the eyes of the blind, except he is from
God.

Now, he comes to one of the most powerful proofs of the deity of Jesus
Christ and of His Messiahship, as we come to the raising of Lazarus from
the dead.

There was a certain man who was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany (Jhn
11:1),

Bethany is just a little village just over the top of the Mount of
Olives on the eastern slope toward the Judean wilderness away from
Jerusalem. It\

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