SCRIPTURE
John 11: 1-45
1
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her
sister Martha. 2 Mary
was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair;
her brother Lazarus was ill. 3
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,1 "Lord, he whom you love
is ill." 4 But when
Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather it is
for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus, 6 after having heard that Lazarus1 was
ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples,
"Let us go to Judea again." 8
The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone
you, and are you going there again?" 9
Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk
during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world.
10 But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is
not in them." 11
After saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but
I am going there to awaken him." 12
The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all
right." 13 Jesus,
however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was
referring merely to sleep. 14
Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead. 15 For your sake I am glad I was not there, so
that you may believe. But let us go to him."
16 Thomas, who was called the Twin,1 said to his
fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus1 had
already been in the tomb four days. 18
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles1 away,
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console
them about their brother. 20
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed
at home. 21 Martha said
to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask
of him." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise
again." 24 Martha
said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the
last day." 25 Jesus
said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.1 Those who
believe in me, even though they die, will live,
26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?" 27
She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah,1 the
Son of God, the one coming into the world."
28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister
Mary, and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for
you." 29 And when
she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at
the place where Martha had met him. 31
The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly
and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the
tomb to weep there. 32
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to
him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her
also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
34 He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to
him, "Lord, come and see." 35
Jesus began to weep. 36
So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the
eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It
was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the
sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench
because he has been dead four days." 40
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see
the glory of God?" 41
So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I
thank you for having heard me. 42
I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd
standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out!" 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound
with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them,
"Unbind him, and let him go." 45
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did,
believed in him.