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

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

Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.