John Chapter 11
1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick in Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 It was Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 Therefore the sisters sent word to Jesus saying: Lord, behold Lazarus whom you love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, He said: This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God so that the Son of God might be glorified by it⁺.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 Yet when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He still stayed⁺ two days in the same place where He was.
7 Then, after that, He said to His disciples: Let us go to Judea again.
8 His disciples said to Him: Master, the Jews have recently⁺ sought to stone you. Do you intend to go there again?
9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day light, they will not stumble, because they see the light of this world.
10 But if people⁺ walk in the night, they stumble because there is no light in them.
11 He said these things, and after that He said to them: Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I am going to him so that I may awaken him out of sleep.
12 Then His disciples said: Lord, if he sleeps, he will do well.
13 However Jesus spoke of Lazarus's death. But they thought that He had spoken of rest in normal sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.
16 Then Thomas who is called Didymus said to his fellow disciples: Let us go also so that we may die with Jesus.
17 Then when Jesus came, He found that Lazarus had been in the grave four days already.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles⁺ away⁺.
19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met Him, but Mary was still sitting in the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus: Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died.
22 But I know that, even now, whatever you will ask of God, God will give it to you.
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 at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, though they were dead, yet shall they live.
26 Whoever 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 Christ, the Son of God who has come to the world.
28 When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly saying: The Master has come and is calling for you.
29 As soon as Mary heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him.
31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, they followed her saying: She is going to the grave to weep there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell down at His feet saying to Him: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
33 Therefore, when Jesus saw Mary weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
34 He said: Where have you laid Lazarus? They said to Him: Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said: Behold how He loved Lazarus.
37 Some of them said: Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind, also have caused Lazarus not to have died?
38 Therefore, Jesus groaned within Himself and came to the grave. It was a cave and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of Lazarus who had died⁺, said to Jesus: Lord, by this time he surely smells⁺ very bad for he has been dead four days.
40 Jesus said to her: Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was laid, and Jesus lifted up His eyes and said: Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but because of the people who stand by I said this so that they may believe that you have sent me.
43 When He had thus spoken, He cried out with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.
44 Then Lazarus who had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face wrapped⁺ with a cloth⁺. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 But some of them went away⁺ to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a council and said: What shall we do? For this man does many miracles~.
48 If we leave⁺ Him alone, all people will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.
49 One of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing at all.
50 Nor do you consider that it is expedient~ for us, that one man should die for the people so that the whole nation does not perish.
51 And he did not say⁺ this from⁺ himself only, but being high priest that year, he unwittingly prophesied that Jesus would die for that nation.
52 And not for that nation only, but that He would also gather together in one, the children of God who were scattered.
53 Then from that day forth, they took counsel together to put Jesus to death.
54 Therefore, Jesus no longer⁺ walked openly among the Jews, but went from there⁺ to a country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and continued there with His disciples.
55 Now the Jews' Passover was very near, and many went out of the country and up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56 And they sought Jesus and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, saying: What do you think? That He will come to the feast or not?
57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that if anyone knew where He was, they should show it so that they might take Him.