John 11:1-27
The Death of Lazarus
11:1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
11:2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
11:3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”
11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
11:5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.
11:7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
11:8 The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”
11:9 Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
11:10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11:11 After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
11:12 Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)
11:14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
11:15 and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
11:16 So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
Speaking with Martha and Mary
11:17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
11:18 (Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
11:19 so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
11:20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
11:21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
11:22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”
11:23 Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.”
11:24 Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”
11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
11:26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
11:27 She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”