Nor does this omission suggest this miracle did not occur as some Bible critics claim. The omission of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead was not an oversight by the writers of the first three gospels. Those gospels even omit the unnamed “other disciple, whom Jesus loved” when they are reporting events where the fourth gospel tells us this “other disciple” was present (examples of this will be presented in the brief Bible study to come). Like Lazarus, the unique associate of Jesus who is anonymously identified as the one whom “Jesus loved” appears only in the forth gospel – neither Lazarus of Bethany nor this unnamed disciple is explicitly mentioned in the first three gospels. Is this simply a coincidence? Two of the key people Jesus’ life are found in the fourth gospel and only the fourth gospel. It turns out there is another prominent figure in the life of Jesus who is also nowhere to be found in the first three gospels. The biblical evidence can help to explain why this miracle is absent from three of the four gospels. Given the significance of Jesus’ raising of Lazarus and the aftershocks of that event, the writers of the first three gospels must have had a good reason for leaving any mention Lazarus and that miracle out of their accounts of the life of Jesus. Only the fourth gospel tells us about Lazarus of Bethany. The raising of Lazarus from the dead was a profound event, so why is this miracle is missing from three of the four gospels? The first three gospels do not even hint that this miracle occurred and they also never mention that Jesus had a friend named Lazarus that he loved.
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