Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I am the resurrection and the life (Egw eimi h anastasiv kai h zwh). This reply is startling enough. They are not mere doctrines about future events, but present realities in Jesus himself. "The Resurrection is one manifestation of the Life: it is involved in the Life" (Westcott). Note the article with both anastasiv and zwh. Jesus had taught the future resurrection often (John 6:39), but here he means more, even that Lazarus is now alive.
Though he die (kan apoqanh). "Even if he die," condition (concession) of third class with kai ean (kan) and the second aorist active subjunctive of apoqnhskw (physical death, he means).
Yet shall he live (zhsetai). Future middle of zaw (spiritual life, of course).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Luke 9:60
John 1:4
John 6:35
John 6:57
John 11:39
John 11:40
John 14:6
1 John 1:1
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