João 11

Martha

21 Then Martha said to Jesus: "Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You." 23 Jesus says to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha says to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." 25 Jesus said to her: "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live; 26 and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die.*The verb ‘die’ in verse 25 refers to physical death, in verse 26 it refers to spiritual death, while the verb ‘live’ refers to spiritual life (although one might translate the Text as ‘will not die forever’, rather than "will never ever die", indicating that physical death is temporary). Note that ‘lives’ and ‘believes into’ are in the present tense, and then note the word ‘both’. Once you have life in Christ, you need to keep on believing. Do you believe this?" 27 She says to Him, "Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world."*Martha was not a theologian; she may not have understood it all, but she knew who Jesus was! Like Martha, we don’t have to understand everything, but we do need to know who Jesus is.