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Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
John 11:24 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
  • KJV Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
  • NKJV Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
  • NASB Martha *said to Him, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
  • NLT “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”

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Quick answer

Martha affirms the Jewish hope that the dead will rise at the last day. Her faith is orthodox but distant.

Overview

Martha expresses the standard Pharisaic and biblical expectation of a future, end-time resurrection. Her confession is true as far as it goes, yet she relegates resurrection to a far-off event rather than a present reality in Jesus. This opens the way for Jesus to reveal that he himself is the resurrection.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Dan 12:2–3And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Acts 24:15and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
  • John 5:28–29Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
  • Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  • Acts 17:31–32For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
  • Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
  • Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
  • Luke 14:14and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
  • Hos 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
  • Ezek 37:1–10The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
  • Acts 23:6–9Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
  • Ps 49:14–15Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
  • Matt 22:23–32That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
  • Isa 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  • Heb 11:35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

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Christ at the center

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