I am the resurrection; the author of the resurrection, and the giver of temporal and eternal life.

Though he were dead; more exactly, though he die. The Saviour has in mind the case of those who have, like Lazarus, suffered natural death.

Yet shall he live; his soul shall still live in blessed communion with God. To the believer, whose soul is made alive by union with God through Christ, the death of the body will be only a sleep, from which it shall be awakened at the resurrection, to a glorious immortality.

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