John 11:20-49

²⁰Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting at home.

²¹Then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died.

²²But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”

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

²⁴Martha says to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

²⁶and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”

²⁸Having said these things she went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling you!”

²⁹Upon hearing it she gets up quickly and goes to Him.

³⁰(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.

³¹Then the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”)

³²Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, upon seeing Him she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died!”

³³So when Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

³⁴And He said, “Where have you put him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

³⁷But some of them said, “Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also kept this one from dying?”

³⁸Then, groaning within Himself again, Jesus arrived at the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

³⁹Jesus says, “Remove the stone!” Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks; it's been four days!”

⁴⁰Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”

⁴¹Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me.

⁴²I know that You always hear me, but I spoke for the sake of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent me.”

⁴³Upon saying these things He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴And out the deceased came! Bound hand and foot with bandages, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

⁴⁵So many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed into Him.

⁴⁶But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said: “What can we do? Because this man performs many miraculous signs;

⁴⁸if we let him go on like this everybody will believe into him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation!”

⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: “You know nothing at all!