John 11

1verseNow a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

2verseIt was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

3verseThe sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

4verseBut when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

5verseNow Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

6verseWhen therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

7verseThen after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

8verseThe disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

9verseJesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10verseBut if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

11verseHe said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

12verseThe disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

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

14verseSo Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

15verseI am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

16verseThomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”

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

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

19verseMany of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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

21verseTherefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

22verseEven now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

23verseJesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24verseMartha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25verseJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

26verseWhoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

27verseShe said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

28verseWhen she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

29verseWhen she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.

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

31verseThen the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

32verseTherefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

33verseWhen Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

34verseand said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

35verseJesus wept.

36verseThe Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

37verseSome of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

38verseJesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

39verseJesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

40verseJesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

41verseSo they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

42verseI know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

43verseWhen he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

44verseHe who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

45verseTherefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

46verseBut some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

47verseThe chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

48verseIf we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

49verseBut a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

50versenor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

51verseNow he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52verseand not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

53verseSo from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

54verseJesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

55verseNow the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

56verseThen they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”

57verseNow the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.