Martha *said to Him, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
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.
- BSB Martha replied, “I know that he will 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.”
- 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 12:2–3Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
- John 5:28–29Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
- Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
- Acts 17:31–32because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
- Hos 6:2After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
- Ezek 37:1–10Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it 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 brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
- Ps 49:14–15They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
- Matt 22:23–32On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
- Isa 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Heb 11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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