John 11:6-40

⁶So, when He heard that he was sick He stayed where He was two more days!

⁷Then after this He says to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”

⁸The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and you are going back there?”

⁹Jesus answered: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if anyone walks in the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

¹¹Having said these things He says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going in order to awaken him.”

¹²His disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping he will get well.”

¹³But Jesus had spoken of his death, while they thought He was talking about natural sleep.

¹⁴So then Jesus said to them plainly: “Lazarus died.

¹⁵And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

¹⁶Then Thomas (called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, “Let's us go too, so that we may die with Him.”

¹⁷So when Jesus had come, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

¹⁸(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,

¹⁹and many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.)

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?”