Verse 6
6. Therefore In consequence of his regard to this family he pursued a course apparently cold, really supremely kind. He did not come; he waited until the disease should be unto death in order that it might not be unto death. Strauss absurdly objects that it was immoral for Jesus to allow Lazarus thus to die in order to raise him from the dead. But would it have been less immoral for him to have permitted his death without any purpose to raise him? Is it immoral for God to allow the human race to die in order to a resurrection?
Abode two days There appears something quite felicitous in the identification by Wieseler of these two days with the to day and to morrow of Luke 13:32. And then the passage, Luke 13:22, will be identified with this present journey to Bethany. And then the profoundly interesting details of Luke 13:22 to Luke 17:10, are a narrative of Jesus’s teachings after the reception of this message from the sisters of Bethany. See Harmony, p. 101. And we see why in the parable Lazarus is the name chosen, (Luke 16:27, where see note,) for one desired to be raised from the dead. While the man he loved is dying, Jesus is performing his living mission preparatory to his own death and resurrection.
Place where he was Near or at Bethabara, east of the Jordan. (See map.)
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