John 11:19-55

¹⁹And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

²⁰When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

²¹Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

²²But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you.

²³Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.

²⁴Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

²⁵Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

²⁶And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

²⁷She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.

²⁸And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.

²⁹And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

³¹Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

³²When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

³³And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,

³⁴And said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord.

³⁵And Jesus himself was weeping.

³⁶So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

³⁷But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

³⁸So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

³⁹Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?

⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

⁴²I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

⁴³Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

⁴⁴And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

⁴⁵Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

⁴⁸If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;

⁵⁰You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

⁵¹He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

⁵²And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

⁵³And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

⁵⁴So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.