<p>11:26 <i>And whoever lives and believes on me shall never die-</i> &quot;Lives&quot; therefore comes before 'believing'. Yet in the preceding verses, the Lord has spoken of 'living' as if He meant 'life at the last day as a result of resurrection': &quot;... he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. But the eternal life, the kind of life we shall eternally live, can be lived right now. &quot;Whoever lives&quot; therefore refers to whoever has His life in them and continues that life of believing.</p><p>He is suggesting that this 'life' can be lived now, and if we have it, and continue to believe in Him, then we will literally &quot;never die&quot;. Again, the Lord is encouraging Martha to believe that in some sense the resurrection life can be experienced now. And He is doing this, in the immediate context, to deepen her faith in the Lord's possibility to raise Lazarus to life- so that He could indeed raise Lazarus from the dead in response to her faith, rather than solely from the motive of His own personal compassion. And He works in this same multi-level way with millions of people simultaneously... the extent of His activity is breath-taking.</p><p><i>Do you believe this?</i>- Is not the implication that Lazarus was raised partly because of <i>her</i> faith&hellip;?</p>