John 11:45-57 is a very interesting section of Scripture where the story of Jesus’ life begins to speed up and become more dramatic. If the prior text of the Gospel of John was an upward-sloped hill, verse 45 is where the hill turns into a mountain. In other words, the historical account of Jesus in the Gospel of John begins to become more profound and intense at the time that Jesus’ fame increases significantly after the raising of Lazarus…