The gospel today is about Lazarus being raised from the dead but the real focus is the resurrection of Jesus. That he is, the resurrection and the life.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 First Reading
7:24 Bishop David Walker
12:27:40 Fr John Frauenfelder
13Mrs Virginia Ryan
15:44 Self Reflection
16:00 Second Reading
21:53 Mrs Virginia Ryan
22:18 Fr John Frauenfelder
23:09 Self Reflection
23:49 Farewell & Final Prayer
John 11:145
The resurrection of Lazarus
1 There was a sick man named Lazarus of Bethany, the village of
Mary and her sister, Martha. 2 It was Mary, the sister of the sick
man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his
feet with her hair. 3 The sisters sent this message to Jesus, ‘Lord,
the one you love is sick.’ 4 On hearing this, Jesus said, ‘This sickness
will not lead to death, but is for God’s glory so that through it the Son
of God may be glorified.’a
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6 yet when he
heard that he was sick he stayed where he was for two more days. 7
Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go back to Judaea.’ 8
The disciples said, ‘Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone
you; are you going back there again?’ 9 Jesus replied:
‘Are there not twelve hours in the day?
No one who walks in the daytime stumbles,
having the light of this world to see by;
10 anyone who walks around at night stumbles,
having no light as a guide.’
11 He said that and then added, ‘Our friend Lazarus is at rest; I
am going to wake him up.’ 12 The disciples said to him, ‘Lord, if he
is at rest he will be saved.’ 13 Jesus had been speaking of the death
of Lazarus, but they thought that by ‘rest’ he meant sleep. 14 So
Jesus put it plainly, ‘Lazarus has died; 15 and for your sake I am
glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.’
16 Then Thomas – known as the Twin – said to the other disciples,
‘Let us also go to die with him.’
17 On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for
four days already. 18 Bethany is only about three kilometres from
Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to
comfort them about their brother. 20 When Martha heard that
Jesus was coming she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in
the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my
brother would not have died, 22 but even now I know that God will
grant whatever you ask of him.’ 23 Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother
will rise again.’ 24 Martha said to him, ‘I know he will rise again at
the resurrection on the last day.’ 25 Jesus said to her:
‘I am the resurrectionb and life.
Anyone who believes in me,
even though that person dies, will live,
26 and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die.
Do you believe this?’
27 She said, ‘Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of
God, the one coming into this world.’
28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary,
saying quietly, ‘The Master is here and is calling you.’ 29 Hearing
this, Mary got up quickly and went to him. 30 Jesus had not yet
come into the village; he was still at the place where Martha had met
him. 31 The Jews who were in the house comforting Mary, seeing
her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was
going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came to where
Jesus was, seeing him she fell at his feet, saying, ‘Lord, if you had
been here, my brother would not have died.’ 33 When Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also, he was
distressed in spirit, and profoundly moved. He said,
34 ‘Where haveyou laid him?’ They said, ‘Lord, come and see.’
35 Jesus wept; 36and the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’
37 Some of them said,
‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have prevented
this man from dying?’ 38 Again inwardly distressed, Jesus reached
the tomb: it was a cave, closed by a stone. 39 Jesus said, ‘Take the
stone away.’ Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, ‘Lord, there
is already a stench; he has been dead for four days.’ 40 Jesus
replied, ‘Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory
of God?’ …….