![]() For younger children, you may wish to use a children’s or storybook version of the Bible, and explain details as you go. The books of Kings and Chronicles, for example, often refer to a king’s death by saying, He slept with his fathers (for instance, see 1 Kings 2:10 2 Kings 8:24 2 Chron. Bible Lesson: Jesus Raised Lazarus from the Dead (John 11) How you choose to experience the story will vary according to the ages and abilities of your children (and how many are participating). 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick. The name Lazarus (Hebrew: God helped) refers to two separate individuals described in the New Testament: the first Lazarus is miraculously raised from the. Of course, when Jesus refers to Lazarus’ sleeping, He is using a metaphor for death drawn from the Old Testament. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ![]() 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:Ģ0 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,Ģ1 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.Ģ2 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried Ģ3 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.Ģ4 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame.Ģ5 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.Ģ6 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.Ģ7 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:Ģ8 For I have five brethren that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.Ģ9 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them.ģ0 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.ģ1 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. The Death of Lazarus 11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick.
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