What Does John 11:24 Mean?
Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the rising on the last day.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.THE KEY
The Greek says “rise again” and “resurrection” with one root image: standing up.
THE MEANING
You can name a hope that reaches beyond present death: the dead rise again at a day still ahead. The words give this hope a concrete shape, standing up again.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι (histēmi), with ἀνά (ana-, up/again)
To stand or set; with ana-, to stand up again.
“rising” in this verse is anastasis. The noun ἀνάστασις (anastasis, resurrection) and the verb ἀναστήσεται (anastēsetai, he will rise again) share the image of standing up. The verse lets that image echo twice: resurrection is the dead standing again.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: To rise or stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This verb is the word-family behind “he shall rise again,” giving the future hope the image of a body standing up.
anastasis: A rising, standing up; resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
This noun names the same standing-up movement as the verb beside it, joining the event and the action in one root image.
THE PATTERN
The dead are pictured as waking or rising from the grave at a final turning point, with the outcome of that awakening exposed.
Your dead will live; together with my corpse they will rise. Awake and ring out, you who camp in the dust, for your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will drop the slackened ones.And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground shall awake, some to the life of the ages, and some to exposure and contempt for the ages.In an instant, in the flick of an eye, at the last trumpet; for it will sound, and the dead will be awakened undecaying, and we will be made other.THE THREAD
Jesus said to her, I am the rising, and the life. Whoever leans their weight into me, even if they die, will live.Martha locates resurrection at the last day; Jesus answers with the same Greek noun, anastasis, and says, “I am.” The future hope remains, while its source is named in the present.
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