John 11

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

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

3So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Lord, look, the one 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.”

5Jesus 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 said to him, “Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone you, and are you 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.

11After saying these things, he said to them, “Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake him up.”

12So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

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

14So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.”

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

16So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with him.”

17So when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

18Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

19Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

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

21So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

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

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

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

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,”

26And everyone who lives and believes in me will certainly never die forever. Do you believe this?

27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”

28And after saying this, she went away and called Mary her sister privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

29And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.

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

31So the Jews who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

32So when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled himself.

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

35Jesus wept.

36So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!”

37But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, also have made it so that this man would not die?”

38Jesus, then, again deeply moved within himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by now he smells, for he has been dead four days.”

40Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

41So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me,”

42But I knew that you always hear me. Yet I said this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you sent me.

43And after saying these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

44The man who had died came out, his feet and hands bound with burial cloths, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Unbind him and let him go.”

45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what he had done believed in him.

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

47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs.”

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

49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.”

50Nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

51He did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

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

53So from that day on they planned to kill him.

54So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and stayed there with the disciples.

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

56So they were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? That he certainly will not come to the feast?”

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