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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Jesus Wept
Description: For Lent we are pausing reading the Bible beginning to end and are exploring a theme of Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John. In today’s scripture, the encounter is with his friends, Mary and Martha, and their brother, Lazarus. Although we don’t often think of people who might be friends of him, rather than disciples or followers, Jesus is clearly friends with these three siblings. When he gets word that Lazarus is gravely ill, though, Jesus hesitates before going to Bethany, and then when he does go, Lazarus has been dead for four days. When Jesus trav...