SUMMARY
JesusJesus is the Messiah whose life, death, and resurrection are God's saving act for humanity. identifies himself as the resurrection and the life, the source of everlasting life.
ANALYSIS
The term resurrection assumes that even people of faith will die, yet they have the hope of being raised to everlasting life with God. Jesus later demonstrates the truth of his promise by undergoing death himself before being raised to new life on Easter. Jesus extends to his followers the same hope of resurrection. The other term Jesus uses is life. Physical life includes a heart that beats and lungs that breathe, but life in its fullest sense is lived in relationship with God. People enter true life by believing in Jesus because to believe is to have a relationship with Jesus and the Father. This relationship does not end with the death of the physical body. When MarthaThe sister of Mary and Lazarus. expresses her belief in the resurrection on the last day, Jesus affirms that he is the hope in a future resurrection with him and the Father and that he is also the source of abundant and eternal life here in the present.
