For more information, please visit the Author Page. ' He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young' ( Isaiah 40:1 1). Hundreds of years before Jesus came, Isaiah spoke of Jesus. 'I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick' ( v.'I will feed them in a good pasture' ( v.'I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out' ( v.In a perhaps less widely-known passage, Ezekiel also described the characteristics of the Lord God as the shepherd of Israel ( Ezekiel 34:11-16): He restores my soul He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake' ( Psalm 23:1-3). He makes me lie down in green pastures He leads me beside quiet waters. David wrote, ' The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. God is the one who cares for the total well-being of his sheep. The Old Testament describes God as the shepherd for his people.

Jesus is referring to the eternal life of our soul and spirit which begins during this earthly life when we believe in him, and that eternal life continues with Jesus after our physical death (' What is Eternal Life'- Ref. Jesus' promise is that when you or I believe in ( trust in, have faith in) him we will live even after our physical death ( Ref. Jesus answered Job's question in the affirmative (yes) and with a promise. Job's question was, 'If a man dies, will he live again?' ( Job 14:14). Jesus told Martha, and these words assure us today - 'I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die' ( John 11:25-26, Ref. Jesus then turn ed his discussion with Martha to the present. Note that Martha believed in a resurrection - as a future event. The Greek word for resurrection in John 11:24-25 is anastasis (pronounced as an-as'-tas-is), which means standing up again, referring to physical resurrection of the body ( Ref. Martha replied to Jesus, 'I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day' ( John 11:24). Jesus assured her, 'Your brother will rise again' ( John 11:23). Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died' ( John 11:21). 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, he whom you love is ill.

2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. When Jesus came to Bethany, Martha came out to meet him ( John 11:20). 11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Jesus knew before he traveled to Bethany that Lazarus already was dead ( John 11:14). Jesus waited two more days ( John 11:6), and then he took his disciples to Bethany, the village of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus ( John 11:1). John, the disciple of Jesus, wrote in John 11:1-5 about Jesus receiving news his friend Lazarus was sick.

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