Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Christ declares Himself the resurrection because the whole human race lies dead in sin, and no one partakes of life until raised by Him. He is the commencement and continuance of life through His Spirit, regenerating those alienated from God. Away with those who say men are prepared for grace by nature's movement, they might as well say the dead walk, for death reigns where the soul is turned aside from God.
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The matter being determined, that Christ will go to Judea, and his disciples with him, they address themselves to their journey; in this journey some circumstances happened which the other evangelists record, as the healing of the blind man at Jericho, and the conversion of Zaccheus.
Commenting on John 11:17-32
Believers who die a bodily death shall be raised and never die again, either in body or in the second death. Their spiritual life is an immortal seed that cannot be extinguished, though it may seem low or hidden; grace in them springs up into everlasting life, and they are secured in Christ against all the power of eternal separation from God.
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