New Testament · Gospels and Acts

John chapter 11

There was a man who was — Lazarus, from , the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.This was the same Mary who later poured on the and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was sick.So the sisters sent a message to Jesus: “Master, the one you is sick.”When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness won’t end in death. No — it’s an opportunity for God’s to be displayed, so that God’s Son is revealed through it.”Now Jesus Martha and her sister and Lazarus.So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he actually stayed where he was for two more days.Then after that, he said to his , “Let’s go back to .”His students said, “, just recently the Jewish leaders there were trying to you, and you want to go back?”Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If you walk during the day, you don’t stumble, because you can see by the .”But if you walk at night, you stumble, because you don’t have the light in you.”After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has , but I’m going to wake him up.”The students said, “Master, if he’s sleeping, he’ll recover.”Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he meant natural sleep.So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.”“And for your sake I’m glad I wasn’t there, so that you’ll me. But let’s go to him.”Then Thomas — the one called “” — said to the other students, “Let’s go too, so we can die with him.”When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the for four days.Bethany was less than from Jerusalem,and many of the had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at the house.Martha said to Jesus, “Master, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”“But even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will give you.”Jesus said to her, “Your brother will .”Martha said, “I know he’ll rise again in the on .”Jesus said to her, “ . Anyone who in me will live, even if they die.”“And everyone who lives and trusts in me will . Do you trust this?”“Yes, Master,” she said. “I have come to trust that you are , the — .”After she said this, she went back and quietly told her sister Mary, “The is here and is asking for you.”When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.Jesus hadn’t entered the village yet — he was still at the place where Martha had met him.The Jewish people who had been in the house comforting Mary saw her get up quickly and leave, so they followed her. They assumed she was going to the tomb to there.When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she and said, “Master, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jewish people who had come with her also weeping, he was in his spirit and .“Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they said.Jesus .The Jewish people said, “Look how much he him!”But some of them said, “He opened the eyes of the blind man — couldn’t he have kept this man from dying?”Jesus, again inside, came to the . It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.“Move the stone aside,” Jesus said. Martha, the dead man’s sister, said, “Master, by now there will be a — it’s been .”Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you , you would see God’s ?”So they moved the stone aside. Jesus looked upward and said, “, thank you for hearing me.”“I know you always hear me, but I said this for the sake of the people standing here, so they’ll that you me.”After saying this, he , “Lazarus, come out!”The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in and his face covered with a . Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”Many of the Jewish people who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did him.But some of them went to the and told them what Jesus had done.So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the . “What are we going to do?” they asked. “This man is performing many .”“If we let him keep going like this, everyone will put their trust in him, and then will come and take away both our and our .”Then one of them, , who was the that year, spoke up: “You people don’t understand anything at all.”“Don’t you realize it’s better for you that one man than for the whole nation to be destroyed?”He didn’t say this on his own. As high priest that year, he that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,and not only for the nation but also to all of .So from that day on, they plotted to kill him.Because of this, Jesus no longer moved around openly among the Jewish leaders. Instead, he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a town called , and he stayed there with his students.Now the Jewish was near, and many people went up from the countryside to Jerusalem before the Passover to go through the .They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the they said to each other, “What do you think? He’s not going to come to the festival, is he?”The and the Pharisees had issued orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, they should report it so they could him.