Unwitting Protagonist
We’ve not yet spent time talking about the co-star of this story in John 11; namely, Lazarus. A number of times throughout the gospels he is mentioned in tandem with his sisters, Mary and Martha. He is a quiet chap. Especially so in this narrative. He is dead. He is the unwitting protagonist.

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If you’ve not figured it out just yet, this rising from the dead is where the story is headed in John 11. Lazarus will be plucked from the tomb. It makes me consider how unfortunate, in some respects, it must have been for Lazarus to be used by Jesus in this way. We’re often more afraid of dying than being dead. Lazarus will get to experience both, once more, in the not too distant future. If my parable insight holds any water, then Lazarus must have been looking forward to paradise and picking up right where he left off.  Had he a choice in the matter, I believe he would have preferred dying just the one time. It’s like the old song from World War I, How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?).  The normally unobtrusive Lazarus would have heaven in his eyes and talk of nothing else from that day forward.