John 11

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

²Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

³So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick."

⁴But when Jesus heard it he said, 'This sickness is not unto death, but 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 he was sick, he then stayed two days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this he says to the disciples, 'Let us go into Judea again.'

⁸The disciples say to him, 'Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone you, and you are 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.'

¹¹He said these things, and after this he says to them, 'Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awaken him.'

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

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought he was speaking of the rest of natural sleep.

¹⁴Then therefore Jesus told them plainly, 'Lazarus has died.'

¹⁵And I rejoice for your sake, so that you may believe, that I was not there. But let us go to him.'

¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to the fellow disciples, 'Let us also go, so that we may die with him.'

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

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

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

²⁰Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

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

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

²³Jesus says to her, 'Your brother will rise again.'

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

²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die into the age. Do you believe this?'

²⁷She says to him, 'Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who comes into the world.'

²⁸And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary, saying secretly, 'The Teacher is here and is calling you.'

²⁹And she, when she heard it, rose up quickly and was coming to him.

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

³¹The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

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

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

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶The Jews therefore were saying, 'See how he was loving him!'

³⁷But some of them said, 'Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind have also caused that this one not die?'

³⁹Jesus says, 'Take away the stone.' The sister of the deceased, Martha, says to him, 'Lord, he already stinks, for it is four days.'

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

⁴¹They therefore took away the stone, where the dead man was laid. And Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, 'Father, I thank you that you have heard me.'

⁴²And I knew that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they may believe that you sent me.'

⁴³And having said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come out.'

⁴⁴And the one who had died came out, bound at his feet and hands with linen strips, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus says to them, 'Loose him and let him go.'

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done believed in him.

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

⁴⁷The chief priests and the Pharisees therefore convened a council and were saying, 'What are we doing, since this man is performing many signs?'

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

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

⁵⁰nor do you reckon that it is better for you that one man should die on behalf of the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

⁵¹Now this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but also that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

⁵³From that day therefore they plotted to kill him.

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

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the region before the Passover to purify themselves.

⁵⁶So they were seeking Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will surely not come to the feast?"

⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had also given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might seize him.