Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Parallel translations
- WEB Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
- BSB Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
- ESV Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on 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
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- Dan 12:2–3And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Acts 24:15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
- John 5:28–29Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
- Isa 26:19Thy 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.
- Acts 17:31–32Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
- Luke 14:14And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
- Hos 6:2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
- Ezek 37:1–10The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
- Acts 23:6–9But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
- Ps 49:14–15Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Matt 22:23–32The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
- Isa 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
- Heb 11:35Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
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