Lazarus
Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. John 11:38 · Berean Standard Bible
Deeply moved again, Jesus comes to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone placed across the entrance.
Jesus is still churning with emotion as He approaches. This tomb looks remarkably like the one where He Himself will soon be laid.
The narrator describes Jesus' arrival at Lazarus' tomb.
Jesus stands before a sealed cave where His friend lies dead. The stone says 'it's over.' But Jesus is about to prove that no stone can keep His love locked out.
Jesus approaches the tomb, 'again deeply moved' (palin embrimōmenos en heautō), arriving at a cave sealed with a stone—standard first-century Jewish burial architecture.
The second instance of 'embrimaomai' intensifies the emotional register. The tomb description—a cave with a stone—parallels Jesus' own future burial (19:41-42), creating a literary foreshadowing.
The narrator describes Jesus' emotional state and the tomb's physical details.
Jesus arrives at the tomb with deep emotion still surging within Him. The description of the cave and stone eerily prefigures His own tomb, binding these two burials in the reader's imagination.
36Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
38Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39“Take away the stone,” Jesus said.
40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
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