John 11:25-26 → Job 19:25-27

From the ash-heap, stripped to skin and bone, Job utters the OT's earliest clear individual-bodily-resurrection-hope: "I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God" (Job 19:25-26). The Hebrew גֹּאֵל (go'el) is the kinsman-redeemer (Lev 25:25; Ruth 3-4), here applied to a living heavenly Redeemer whose vitality outlasts Job's decay and stands surety for his vindication — and Job expects to see God with his own eyes, in his own flesh, beyond the grave. At Lazarus's tomb Jesus answers that confession in the first person: "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die" (John 11:25-26). Where Job confesses that his Redeemer lives, Jesus declares who the living Redeemer is — He does not merely grant resurrection but is it. This is an Echo, not an Allusion or quotation: there is no verbal borrowing, no citation formula, no shared lexeme — no NT author ever quotes Job 19:25, and the link rests entirely on a specific conceptual resonance (the living Redeemer who secures life through and beyond bodily death, beheld face-to-face by the believer). The warranting methods are therefore Longitudinal Theme — Job's confession is one of the canon's earliest nodes in the resurrection-hope trajectory that Christ consummates — and Promise-Fulfillment in the broad sense that the hope Job staked everything on ("my Redeemer lives") finds its personal answer in the One who is the resurrection; it is not typology, because the connection is the content of Job's hope meeting its fulfillment, not a person or event typologically prefiguring Christ. The telos: Job's most aching longing was not bare survival but sight — "I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!" (v.27). That yearning to behold the Redeemer is exactly the desire Christ satisfies when He names Himself the resurrection and the life, so that the hope of the dying believer is not a doctrine to be endured but a Person to be longed for and finally, gladly, seen.