John 11:24-50

²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he dies, will live;

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

²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary privately. She said, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

²⁹When she heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

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

³²When Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and was troubled;

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

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶Then the Jews said, “See how much he loved Lazarus!”

³⁷But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of a blind man, also have made this man not die?”

³⁸Then Jesus again, being deeply moved in himself, went to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of Lazarus, the one who had died, said to Jesus, “Lord, by this time the body will be decaying, for he has been dead for four days.”

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

⁴¹So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

⁴²I knew that you always listen to me, but it is because of the crowd that is standing around me that I said this, so that they may believe that you have sent me.”

⁴³After he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴The dead man came out; his feet and hands were bound with cloths, and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

⁴⁵Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council together and said, “What will we do? This man does many signs.

⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him; the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

⁴⁹However, a certain man among them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing.

⁵⁰You do not consider that it is better for you that one man dies for the people than that the whole nation perishes.”