John 11:25
New International Version
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;

New Living Translation
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.

English Standard Version
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live.

King James Bible
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

New King James Version
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

New American Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies,

NASB 1995
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

NASB 1977
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies,

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

Amplified Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, relies on) Me [as Savior] will live even if he dies;

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

American Standard Version
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua said to her, “I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Resurrection and The Life; whoever trusts in me, even if he dies, he shall live.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus then said, "I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even if they die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

English Revised Version
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus said to her, "I am the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die.

Good News Translation
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

International Standard Version
Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.

Literal Standard Version
Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection, and the life; he who is believing in Me, even if he may die, will live;

Majority Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

New American Bible
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

NET Bible
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,

New Heart English Bible
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Weymouth New Testament
"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

World English Bible
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

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Context
Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary
24Martha replied, “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. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. 26And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”…

Cross References
John 1:4
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 5:21
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

John 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

John 6:39
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Colossians 3:4
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

I am.

John 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

John 6:39,40,44
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day…

Romans 5:17-19
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) …

the life.

John 1:4
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 5:26
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

he that.

John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Job 19:25-27
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: …

Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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John 11
1. Jesus raises Lazarus, four days buried.
45. Many Jews believe.
47. The high priests and Pharisees gather a council against Jesus.
49. Caiaphas prophesies.
54. Jesus hides himself.
55. At the Passover they enquire after him, and lay wait for him.














(25) I am the resurrection, and the life.--She has spoken of the resurrection as a truth which she believes, and as an event in the far-off future, so remote from the present life indeed, as to be powerless to comfort her now. The two first words of His answer, expressed in the fulness of emphasis, teach her that the resurrection is to be thought of as His person, and that it is to be thought of as actually present. "I,"--his words mean--"and none beside Me, am the Resurrection. I am the Resurrection--a. present life, and not simply a life in the remoteness of the last day." In the same sense in which He has declared Himself to be the Water of Life and the Bread of Life, supplying in Himself every need of spiritual thirst and spiritual hunger, He declares Himself to be the Resurrection, revealing in His own person all that men had ever thought and hoped of a future life, being Himself the power which shall raise them at the last day, and could therefore raise them now. This is because He is also "the Life," and therefore every one in communion

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.--Better, though he have died . . . She thinks and speaks of Lazarus as dead. He asserts that in the true thought of the spiritual life the fact of physical death does not interrupt that life.

Verses 25, 26. - Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection. Not merely that God will give me what I ask, but that I am in some sense already his gift to man of resurrection, inasmuch as I am that of Life. (So Luthardt and Godet, but not Meyer, who makes ζωή the positive result of ἀνάστασις.) By taking humanity into his Person, Christ reveals the permanence of human individuality, that is, of such individuality as is in union with himself. He associates (John 14:6) "the Life" which he gives with" the Way" and "the Truth," i.e. with the whole sum of human experience and of human meditation and speculation, i.e. with all the conduct of the will and the mind. He that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live. In these words he identifies the "life" with the transfiguration of the bodily life. The grand method of this blessed life is faith. The life which is the condition and ground of resurrection is the natural consequence of a faith which accepts Christ, and identifies itself with him. But "there are some who have believed, and have what you call died" - though they die, they shall live. In such cases, so-called "death" is veritable "life." The life of faith will survive the shock of death, and whosoever liveth, and believeth on me, shall never die - shall never taste of death (cf. John 6:51, 8:51). This is no new teaching for the more thoughtful of his hearers. There are multitudes now believing (and therefore living) in him. They shall never die in the sense in which death has been hitherto regarded; they shall by no means die forever. Faith is eternal life: death is only a momentary shadow upon a life which is far better. Whether the corruption of the grave passes over the believer or not, he lives an eternal life, which has no element of death nor proclivity to death in it. So far the Lord is lifting Martha to a higher experience of life and a comparative in difference to death. Before he offers any further consolation, he probes to the quick her faith in him and in the eternal life. Believest thou this? Τοῦτο; "Is this thy belief?" not τουτῷ; "Dost thou believe in my statement?" "Believest thou that the Resurrection which I am and which I give can thus transform for thee the whole meaning of death?" The fullness of life after death is assured in virtue of the resurrection which Christ could effect at any moment, and will eventually effect for all. This life of which Christ speaks may be the life which is the consequence of the resurrection (ἀνὰστασις) of man effected in the Incarnation, or it may be the condition of "resurrection" and sufficient proof that, if a man receive it by faith, he is free' from all the curse of physical death, and assured of a perfect victory over it. So also the οὐ μὴ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα may either mean "not forever," and thus the words may be taken to refer to the resurrection. "He will not forever die," i.e. death may supervene, but will be conquered; or οὐ μὴ may mean "never," "in no wise," and the "never die" may refer to spiritual death, overlooking physical death altogether. The whole narrative is a great parable of life through death.

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Greek
Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

said
Εἶπεν (Eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

to her,
αὐτῇ (autē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“I
Ἐγώ (Egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

am
εἰμι (eimi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

resurrection
ἀνάστασις (anastasis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 386: A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

life.
ζωή (zōē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.

He who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

believes
πιστεύων (pisteuōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

in
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Me
ἐμὲ (eme)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

will live,
ζήσεται (zēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2198: To live, be alive. A primary verb; to live.

even though
κἂν (kan)
Adverb
Strong's 2579: And if, even if, even, at least. From kai and ean; and if.

he dies.
ἀποθάνῃ (apothanē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 599: To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off.


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