Christ, Both Resurrection and Life
E. L. Hull, B. A. John 11:17-27 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.… There is a glorious harmony in the words "Resurrection and Life." Either of them alone would be insufficient, combined they are divinely satisfying. If Christ had said only, "I am the Resurrection," without promising to bestow a new spiritual life, He would have told us merely of misery. To rise again into the life we have now, with its struggle, and care, and failure — to repeat it age after age — what were this but perpetual conflict and everlasting unrest? Or if He had said merely, "I am the Life," without saying "I am the Resurrection," we should still be of all men most miserable. For if He had given us new spiritual life in the love of God, without raising us after death, we should have been haunted with grand hopes and infinite aspirations that were destined never to be fulfilled. Christ combines the two, and therefore He tells us, There is in me a life which, by dying, rises to its perfection; and therefore death is no more death, but resurrection to the fulness of life. (E. L. Hull, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. WEB: So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.