John11

¹Now a certain man was ill , Lazarus of Bethany , the village of Mary and her sister Martha .

²It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair , whose brother Lazarus was ill .

³So the sisters sent to him , saying , Lord , he whom you love is ill .

⁴But when Jesus heard it he said , This illness does not lead to death . It is for the glory of God , so that the Son of God may be glorified through it .

⁵Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus .

⁶So , when he heard that Lazarus was ill , he stayed two days longer in the place where he was .

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples , Let us go to Judea again .

⁸The disciples said to him , Rabbi , the Jews were just now seeking to stone you , and are you going there again ?

⁹Jesus answered , Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If anyone walks in the day , he does not stumble , because he sees the light of this world .

¹⁰But if anyone walks in the night , he stumbles , because the light is not in him .

¹¹After saying these things , he said to them , Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep , but I go to awaken him .

¹²The disciples said to him , Lord , if he has fallen asleep , he will recover .

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death , but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep .

¹⁴Then Jesus told them plainly , Lazarus has died ,

¹⁵and for your sake I am glad that I was not there , so that you may believe . But let us go to him .

¹⁶So Thomas , called the Twin , said to his fellow disciples , Let us also go , that we may die with him .

¹⁷Now when Jesus came , he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days .

¹⁸Bethany was near Jerusalem , about two miles off ,

¹⁹and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother .

²⁰So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming , she went and met him , but Mary remained seated in the house .

²¹Martha said to Jesus , Lord , if you had been here , my brother would not have died .

²²But even now I know that whatever you ask from God , God will give you .

²³Jesus said to her , Your brother will rise again .

²⁴Martha said to him , I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day .

²⁵Jesus said to her , I am the resurrection and the life . Whoever believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live ,

²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die . Do you believe this ?

²⁷She said to him , Yes , Lord ; I believe that you are the Christ , the Son of God , who is coming into the world .

²⁸When she had said this , she went and called her sister Mary , saying in private , The Teacher is here and is calling for you .

²⁹And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him .

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village , but was still in the place where Martha had met him .

³¹When the Jews who were with her in the house , consoling her , saw Mary rise quickly and go out , they followed her , supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there .

³²Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him , she fell at his feet , saying to him , Lord , if you had been here , my brother would not have died .

³³When Jesus saw her weeping , and the Jews who had come with her also weeping , he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled .

³⁴And he said , Where have you laid him ? They said to him , Lord , come and see .

³⁵Jesus wept .

³⁶So the Jews said , See how he loved him !

³⁷But some of them said , Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying ?

³⁸Then Jesus , deeply moved again , came to the tomb . It was a cave , and a stone lay against it .

³⁹Jesus said , Take away the stone . Martha , the sister of the dead man , said to him , Lord , by this time there will be an odor , for he has been dead four days .

⁴⁰Jesus said to her , Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God ?

⁴¹So they took away the stone . And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said , Father , I thank you that you have heard me .

⁴²I knew that you always hear me , but I said this on account of the people standing around , that they may believe that you sent me .

⁴³When he had said these things , he cried out with a loud voice , Lazarus , come out .

⁴⁴The man who had died came out , his hands and feet bound with linen strips , and his face wrapped with a cloth . Jesus said to them , Unbind him , and let him go .

⁴⁵Many of the Jews therefore , who had come with Mary and had seen what he did , believed in him ,

⁴⁶but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done .

⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said , What are we to do ? For this man performs many signs .

⁴⁸If we let him go on like this , everyone will believe in him , and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation .

⁴⁹But one of them , Caiaphas , who was high priest that year , said to them , You know nothing at all .

⁵⁰Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people , not that the whole nation should perish .

⁵¹He did not say this of his own accord , but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation ,

⁵²and not for the nation only , but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad .

⁵³So from that day on they made plans to put him to death .

⁵⁴Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews , but went from there to the region near the wilderness , to a town called Ephraim , and there he stayed with the disciples .

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand , and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves .

⁵⁶They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple , What do you think ? That he will not come to the feast at all?

⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was , he should let them know , so that they might arrest him .