Yohanes 5:25-29

5:25 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  a time ²  is coming – and is now here – when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 5:27 and he has granted the Son ³  authority to execute judgment, ⁴  because he is the Son of Man.

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ⁵  is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 5:29 and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. ⁶ 

Yohanes 11:43-44

11:43 When ⁷  he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, ⁸  “Lazarus, come out!” 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, ⁹  and a cloth wrapped around his face. ¹⁰  Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him ¹¹  and let him go.”

[5:25]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[5:25]  ² tn Grk “an hour.”

[5:27]  ³ tn Grk “him.”

[5:27]  ⁴ tn Grk “authority to judge.”

[5:28]  ⁵ tn Grk “an hour.”

[5:29]  ⁶ tn Or “a resurrection resulting in judgment.”

[11:43]  ⁷ tn Grk “And when.”

[11:43]  ⁸ sn The purpose of the loud voice was probably to ensure that all in the crowd could hear (compare the purpose of the prayer of thanksgiving in vv. 41-42).

[11:44]  ⁹ sn Many have wondered how Lazarus got out of the tomb if his hands and feet were still tied up with strips of cloth. The author does not tell, and with a miracle of this magnitude, this is not an important fact to know. If Lazarus’ decomposing body was brought back to life by the power of God, then it could certainly have been moved out of the tomb by that same power. Others have suggested that the legs were bound separately, which would remove the difficulty, but the account gives no indication of this. What may be of more significance for the author is the comparison which this picture naturally evokes with the resurrection of Jesus, where the graveclothes stayed in the tomb neatly folded (20:6-7). Jesus, unlike Lazarus, would never need graveclothes again.

[11:44]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and his face tied around with cloth.”

[11:44]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Loose him.”