<p>11:40 - see on Jn. 11:4.</p><p><i>Jesus said to her: Did I not say to you, that if you believed, you should see the glory of God?</i>- The Lord Jesus encourages us to see ourselves as Moses. This is without doubt an allusion to Moses' experience of seeing God's glory- an experience which in Jewish eyes marked Moses&nbsp;out as the greatest man who had ever lived. The veneration in which Moses was and is held in the Jewish world is hard for Gentiles to enter into. A glance through rabbinical commentaries on the Pentateuch will illustrate this well. And here was the Lord Jesus saying that through faith in him, we can share the experience of Moses, we can rise to the spiritual heights of the man who spoke to God face to face as a man speaks to his friend.&nbsp;</p><p>We are being invited to be equal to Moses, seeing from the cleft in the rock the awesome majesty of the perfection of Christ's character; the full glory of God. But do we appreciate his righteousness? Paul likewise invites us to behold with unveiled face, as Moses did (2 Cor. 3:18 RV), and thereby, just from appreciating the glory of Christ's character, be changed into the same glory. Note too how in Rom. 11 we are each bidden &ldquo;behold the goodness and severity of God&rdquo;- a reference to Moses beholding all the goodness of Yahweh. We are in essence in his position right now (Ex. 33:19).</p><p>John's Gospel contains several references to the fact that Christ 'shows' the Father to those who believe in him, and that it is possible to &quot;see the Father&quot; and his glory through seeing or accurately believing in him as the Son of the Father (Jn. 11:40; 12:45; 14:9; 16:25). Moses earnestly wished to see the Father fully, but was unable to do so. The height which Moses reached as he cowered in that rock cleft and heard God's Name declared is hard to plumb. But we have been enabled to <i>see</i> the Father, through our appreciation of the Lord Jesus. But does an appropriate sense of <i>wonder</i> fill us? Do we really make time to <i>know</i> the Son of God? Or do we see words like &ldquo;glory&quot; as just cold theology?</p><p>Martha clearly believed Lazarus was now decomposed, and it would make a smell if the stone over his tomb was rolled away. &ldquo;Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?&rdquo; was the Lord&rsquo;s response (Jn. 11:40). Clearly she didn&rsquo;t have that faith. So, on one level, she shouldn&rsquo;t have seen God&rsquo;s glory revealed in the resurrection of Lazarus (Jn. 11:4). And yet we read straight away that then, Lazarus was raised- despite Martha&rsquo;s &lsquo;unworthiness&rsquo; of it. Such was the Lord&rsquo;s love for them all.&nbsp;</p>