John 11:6-40

⁶So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed two more days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this, he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

⁸The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, right now the Jews are trying to stone you, and you are going back there again?”

⁹Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of light in a day? If someone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

¹⁰However, if he walks at night, he will stumble because the light is not in him.”

¹¹He said these things, and after these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake him out of sleep.”

¹²The disciples therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the sleep of resting.

¹⁴Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.

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

¹⁶Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go so that we may die with Jesus.”

¹⁷When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

¹⁹Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them about their brother.

²⁰Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

²¹Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²²Even now, I know that whatever you ask from God, he will give to you.”

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

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?”