Right.
This obviously isn't intended as a literal picture of what happens after death. It's a parable.
I would tend to agree.
Out of the whole NT, the name Lazarus is
only mentioned in
Luke 16 [parable of rich-man and Lazarus] and
John 11, 12 [Lazarus resurrected from the dead.]
I find that rather amazing.
Luke 16:20
“But there was a certain beggar named
Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
22 "So it was that
the beggar died, and was carried by the angels
to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
John 11:
24
Martha said to Him, “I know that
he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
39
Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for
he has been dead four days.”
43
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
44
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
46
But some of them went away to the
Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.
47
Then
the Chief priests and
the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
John 12:
1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died,
whom He raised out of the dead;
9 A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;
10 and
the Chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
17
Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called
Lazarus out of his tomb and
raised him from the dead, bore witness.
Thanks for the post.
