John Calvin Commentary John 11:43

John Calvin Commentary

John 11:43

1509–1564
Protestant
John Calvin
John Calvin

John Calvin Commentary

John 11:43

1509–1564
Protestant
SCRIPTURE

"And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth." — John 11:43 (ASV)

He cried with a loud voice. By not touching with the hand, but only crying with the voice, his Divine power is more fully demonstrated. At the same time, he holds out to our view the secret and astonishing efficacy of his word. For how did Christ restore life to the dead but by the word? And therefore, in raising Lazarus, he exhibited a visible token of his spiritual grace, which we experience every day by the perception of faith, when he shows that his voice gives life.