[4] It was the second of two singles released from their debut album while the band were estranged from their label Silvertone.

"[5] John Squire designed the "I Am the Resurrection" cover, (an up-close shot from the cover of the first album) continuing the Jackson Pollock-influenced theme of singles from The Stone Roses.

[6] NME magazine placed "I Am the Resurrection" at number 8 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

In addition to the title alluding to John 11, he argues that there are references to stubbornness and repentance found in the prophetic literature of the Old Testament, which repeatedly uses the language of "turning" to God, and persistence and redemption in the New Testament, which uses the language of knocking at doors (e.g. Luke 11:5-10; Luke 13:23-27).

In Crossley's view, the song partly functions as "a story of God and Israel/humanity in the Bible" but now "applied to a human relationship".