Here are some notes from John 11- v. 39, Jesus said “Take away the stone”    – Moving a tombstone would have made a person unclean by the Mishna      standards. there were Jewish leaders around that taught that very      thing, so Jesus is immediately flying in their face.        – Jesus was not concerned with the complicated religion of          figuring out what made a person clean or unclean. To the          Jewish leaders, He was about to cause a really big problem.          Not only from the shock of raising someone from the dead, but          I’m sure there would be debate...