Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.
The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children
In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
