[Swordmaker]

That famous guy Charles Spurgeon wrote a very good article (sermon?) about it - and gave those ideas. But he thought that Lazarus was bound like you said, according to custom, and hopped out like in a gunny sack race.

If a body is buried in the manner as prescribed in the Mishnah, Lazarus would simply untie his leg bindings. They aren’t tight or even snug. Pull off the facecloth binding his mouth closed, and wiggle his wrists free; again, they aren’t meant to imprison a living, struggling person, just to keep a dead body from going slack and flopping with the effects of decomposition when rigor mortis passes, and the flesh no longer holds the bones in place.

[21twelve]

John 11:43-44

When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Perhaps he did wriggle free of some of the bindings enough to move. Perhaps they were laying loose but still entangling him to some degree. Or - thinking about it now - Jesus (in this translation) says to take the grave clothes off. Perhaps emphasizing that he is alive - and doesn’t require the ritualistic burial coverings.