Where did Lazarus go?

Question

Did he go to hell or heaven?He was Jesus friend so he would have been a good person.
You would think if he experience anything beyond the grave, he would have said something?
He was dead for four days, he must have went somewhere,or did he stay in the grave?
Please backup your reasoning with scriptures.
Did something leave his body and come back?

if we dont know where Lazarus went when he died then we don,t know where we are going when we die.

If Lazarus went to heven then why did his friend Jesus bring him back so he could die again?

Answer 1

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death. John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Answer 2

The bible doesn't say. My guess is after Jesus raised him from the dead, he lived a pretty normal life. But the bible does say that we can only die once. So he didn't go back to the grave.

"Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him." – Hebrews 9:27,28

So I can only surmise that he was taken bodily up to heaven while still living at the time Jesus went there.

As to your last point:

And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. - 2 Kings 2:11

Answer 3

God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) Clearly, the soul is not what a man has but what he is. The Hebrew word used here for soul is ne'phesh. It occurs some 700 times in the Bible, and it never refers to a separate and ethereal part of a human but always to something tangible and physical.—Job 6:7; Psalm 35:13; 107:9; 119:28.

What happens to the soul at death? Consider what happened to Adam at his death. When he sinned, God told him: "You [will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, Adam did not exist. After his death, Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.

Answer 4

I think it's another mythological story copied from Egyptology

but if Lazarus or Jesus was raised from the dead, and then died...what now brown cow

Answer 5

The Bible doesn't say specifically where Lazarus went but as a believer in Christ we know that believers, before the cross, went to a place called "paradise", otherwise known as "Abraham's Bosom". When Christ died on the cross he went down to collect paradise and bring it up to heaven. Lazarus eventually died and as a believer, I imagine he went to heaven.

Answer 6

not a notice approximately it interior the Bible. Lazarus reported not something. He exchange into interior the grave, a ineffective physique. Jesus delivered him returned to existence. i could think of it could have been cruel if he exchange into in Heaven, to convey him returned to existence in the international. So, he had to be interior the grave, as Christ did say he exchange into asleep in dying. sturdy question Lone & sturdy to work out you here.

Answer 7

I think it was zombie land, near Jamica, the far west corner of the earth. he may have fallen off the corner

Answer 8

The bible didn't say, therefore we don't know and any "answers" to these questions would merely be conjecture.

Answer 9

I see this old homeless walking in Old Town.

Answer 10

Hmmm, tougie!?!?

Esther's right!?!?

God only Knows!?!?