The Promise of Life in the Gospel of John

Abstract

“We are now in a position to resolve the apparent contradiction in the two promises given by Jesus to Martha. As the life, Jesus promised believers that they would never die; as the resurrection, he indicated the kind of dying that would lead to resurrection. The death from which believers were promised immunity was the death in sin. … Those who live 'in Christ' will never suffer that death. The death that followers of Christ would die was another thing entirely.”