Then he told the people to roll the stone away. But Martha said, “Lord, you know that Lazarus has been dead four days, and there will be a bad smell.”
When Jesus got to Bethany, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
On their way, they were asking one another, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance for us?”
You cannot buy back your life or pay off God!
has power over everything, and he will make these poor bodies of ours like his own glorious body.
You will sweat all your life to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”
The Lord won't leave me in the grave. I am his holy one, and he won't let my body decay.
They are like sheep with death as their shepherd, leading them to the grave. In the morning God's people will walk all over them, as their bodies lie rotting in their home, the grave.
to stay alive forever and safe from death.
“I live as a foreigner in your land, and I don't own any property where I can bury my wife. Please let me buy a piece of land.”
When David was alive, he obeyed God. Then after he died, he was buried in the family grave, and his body decayed.