Chapter 9: The Response

Many of the Jews who had come to mourn and had stood at that tomb believed in Jesus when they saw what He did. They had no framework for what they had just witnessed. A man dead four days, wrapped in grave cloths, walking out of a sealed tomb at the sound of a voice. It was not something that could be reasoned away.

WOMAN“I was standing right there. He called his name and Lazarus walked out. I saw it with my own eyes. I do not know how to explain what I saw.”

But not everyone responded the same way. Some went directly to the Pharisees and reported everything they had witnessed. Scripture does not present them as conspirators. They simply went and told what they saw.

MAN“The Pharisees need to know about this. This cannot go unreported.”

The same event. Two entirely different destinations.

Back in Bethany the house was different. Lazarus was alive. The mourners were gone. What had been a house of grief was now something no one had words for.