Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on referencing
- Part i The Evangelist, the gospel, the Word
- Part ii Interpretations and representations
- Chapter 4 Water into wine
- Chapter 5 Living water
- Chapter 6 Raising the dead
- Chapter 7 ‘Behold thy mother’
- Chapter 8 Touching the risen body
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Raising the dead
Lazarus of Bethany
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on referencing
- Part i The Evangelist, the gospel, the Word
- Part ii Interpretations and representations
- Chapter 4 Water into wine
- Chapter 5 Living water
- Chapter 6 Raising the dead
- Chapter 7 ‘Behold thy mother’
- Chapter 8 Touching the risen body
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011