John 11:20-47

²⁰When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

²¹“Master,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²²Even now, I know that God will grant you whatever you ask him.”

²³“Your brother will rise to life,” said Jesus.

²⁴“I know that he will,” replied Martha, “in the resurrection at the Last day.”

²⁵“I am the resurrection and the life,” said Jesus. “He who believes in me will live, though he die;

²⁶and he who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷“Yes Master,” she answered; “I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

²⁸After saying this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, and whispered, “The teacher is here, and is asking for you.”

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

³⁰Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

³¹So the people, who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³²When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. “Master,” she exclaimed, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”

³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.

³⁴“Where have you buried him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they answered.

³⁵Jesus burst into tears.

³⁶“How he must have loved him!” the people exclaimed;

³⁷but some of them said, “Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?”

³⁸Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.

³⁹“Move the stone away,” said Jesus. “Master,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time the smell must be offensive, for this is the fourth day since his death.”

⁴⁰“Didn't I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that, if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?”

⁴¹So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard my prayer;

⁴²I know that you always hear me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that you has sent me as your messenger.”

⁴³Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus! Come out!”

⁴⁴The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding-sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. “Set him free,” said Jesus, “and let him go.”

⁴⁵In consequence of this, many of the people, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

⁴⁶Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.

⁴⁷The chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said, “What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?