The story line in John 11 is full of the glory of God.  Jesus knows that he is going to Bethany so that He and His Father in heaven can raise his good friend Lazarus from the dead.  He does several things to make sure all the witnesses understand the significance of this miracle and who Jesus is.

He delays going, so that all will know that Lazarus has truly died – he is so dead that he has been buried. 

Jesus tells Martha that her brother will rise and then makes an astounding claim of deity: “I am the resurrection and the life.  Whoever believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.” Not only can Jesus cause the resurrection, but he IS the embodiment of the resurrected, eternal life in fellowship with God.

Before going to where Lazarus was laid, Jesus has great compassion on the crowd and weeps.  His sorrow is genuine and deep.

When he arrives at the gravesite, he prays aloud so that all can hear, conversing with His Father in heaven and thanking Him for answering.  Everyone gathered there heard this prayer and understood to whom Jesus was speaking.

When Jesus calls Lazarus to come out, many witnesses believe; they know the glorious truth that Jesus is God and the Son of God and that he is also a man, the Son of Man described in Daniel. The awful truth is that some of the witnesses went immediately to tattle on Jesus to the Pharisees; they did not understand who Jesus was.