John 11:20-47

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

²¹Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you'd been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

²²But I'm certain that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

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

²⁴“I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day,” Martha answered.

²⁵Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who trust in me will live, even though they die.

²⁶All who live in me and trust in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one expected to come to this world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she went and told her sister Mary in private, “The Teacher's here, and asking to see you.”

²⁹As soon as she heard, Mary quickly got up and went to see him.

³⁰Jesus hadn't arrived in the village yet. He was still at the place where Martha had met him.

³¹The Jews who had been comforting Mary in the home saw how she'd got up quickly and left. So they followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³²When Mary arrived at the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you'd been here, my brother wouldn't have died.”

³³When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying as well, he was very troubled and upset.

³⁴“Where have you laid him?” he asked. They replied, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Then Jesus cried too.

³⁶“See how much he loved him,” the Jews said.

³⁷But some of them said, “If he could open the eyes of a blind man, couldn't he have kept Lazarus from dying?”

³⁸Very troubled, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a large stone placed at the entrance.

³⁹“Remove the stone,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man's sister, said, “Lord, by now there will be a terrible smell, for he's been dead for four days.”

⁴⁰“Didn't I tell you that if you trusted me you would see God's glory?” Jesus replied.

⁴¹So they removed the stone. Jesus looked heavenwards, and said, “Father, thank you for listening to me.

⁴²I know you always listen to me. I said this because of the crowd standing here so that they will believe that you sent me.”

⁴³After saying this, Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of linen, and with a cloth around his face. “Unbind him and set him free,” Jesus told them.

⁴⁵Consequently many of the Jews who had come to comfort Mary and who saw what Jesus did put their trust in him.

⁴⁶But others went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the ruling council. “What shall we do?” they asked. “This man is doing many miracles.