John 11:1-23

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

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

³These sisters therefore sent to Him, saying, “Lord, one You love is sick!”

⁴When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness won’t end in death, but for God’s glory, so that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

⁵Now Jesus sincerely loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

⁶Yet, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed where He was for two more days.

⁷After this, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

⁸The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just recently trying to stone You! Are You really going back there?”

⁹Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks by day doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But anyone who walks by night stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

¹¹After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

¹²The disciples therefore said to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will recover.”

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was talking about literal sleep.

¹⁴So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

¹⁵and I am glad for your sakes that I wasn’t there, so that you may believe — but let’s go to him.”

¹⁶Therefore Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go, too, that we may die with Him.”

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

¹⁸Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away,

¹⁹and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

²⁰When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed home.

²¹Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

²²Even now I know that God will give you whatever You ask of Him.”

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