(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

One of Jesus’ disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,

Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.”

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

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

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

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

Jesus replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?”