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.”
24Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live even if they die,
26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27“Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I have believed that You are the Christ, God’s Son, who was to come into the world.”
28When she had said this, she went back and called Mary, her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here, and is asking for you.”
29When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to Him.
30Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha met Him.
31The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32When Mary came to where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
34He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.”
35Jesus wept.
36So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!”
37But some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man from dying?”
38Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a boulder was placed against the entrance.
39Jesus said, “Take away the boulder.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, because he has been dead four days.”
40Jesus told her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you would believe you would see God’s glory?”
41Then they took the boulder away from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard me.
42I know that You always hear me, but because of the people who are standing here I said this, that they may believe that You sent me.”
43Now when He had said these things, He called loudly, “Lazarus, come out!”
44He who had died came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus told them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
45Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.
46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus did.
47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What are we doing? For this Man performs many signs.
48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49Then a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, “You don’t know anything,