Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.  Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days."  Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"  So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me.  I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."  When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"  The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Lazarus is raised.  The fish spews out Jonah.  For “deliverance belongs to the Lord.”  It is not by our own strength or merits that we are delivered but by the merciful hand of God.

These two passages teach the same thing which can be thought of two different ways.  First, through Christ all are raised to new life.  Christ is the sole judge, the only one through whom we have new life by virtue of his mercy and obedience to the Father in his passion, death and resurrection.

Second, when we fall into personal sin it is by his Blood that we are forgiven and raised once again to life in the Spirit.

Jonah: “Deliverance belongs to the Lord”

John: “I am the resurrection and the life”