John 11:29-46

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

³⁰Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.

³¹The Jews who were in the house with Mary, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go outside. So they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb where they had buried Lazarus, in order to cry there.

³²When Mary got to where Jesus was and saw him, she prostrated herself at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my younger brother would not have died!”

³³When Jesus saw her crying, and saw that the Jews who had come with her were also crying, he was very angry that Satan had caused Lazarus to die (OR, very troubled) and disturbed in his spirit.

³⁴He said, “Where have you buried ◄him/his body►?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus began to cry.

³⁶Then some of the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”

³⁷But some others said, “He enabled a blind man to see. So ◄he should have been able to heal this man so that he did not die!/why did he not heal this man so that he did not die?► RHQ”

³⁸Within himself Jesus was again very angry about Lazarus dying (OR, very troubled). He came to the tomb. It was a cave. The entrance had been covered with a large stone.

³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone!” Martha, who, as I mentioned before, was an older sister of the man who had died, said, “Lord, his body has been in the tomb for four days, so now there will be a bad smell!”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “I told RHQ you that if you believed in ◄ me/what I can do►, you would see how great God is! Have you forgotten that?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up toward heaven and said, “My Father, I thank you that you heard me when I prayed about this earlier.

⁴²I know that you always hear me when I pray. But instead of just praying silently, I said that for the sake of the people who are standing here. I want them to believe that you sent me.”

⁴³After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴The man who had been dead came out! The strips of cloth were still wrapped around his hands and feet, and a cloth was still around his face, but he came out! Jesus said to them, “Take off the cloths so that he can walk easily!” So they did that.

⁴⁵As a result, many of the Jews who had come to see Mary and who had seen what Jesus did, believed that he ◄ was the Messiah/had come from God►.

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