¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha .

²It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair , whose brother Lazarus was sick.

³The sisters therefore sent to him , saying , “Lord , behold , he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

⁴But when Jesus heard it , he said , “ This sickness is not to death , but for the glory of God , that God ’s Son may be glorified by it .”

⁵Now Jesus loved Martha , and her sister, and Lazarus .

⁶When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was .

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

⁸The disciples asked him , “Rabbi , the Jews were just trying to stone you . Are you going there again ?”

⁹Jesus answered, “Aren’ t there twelve hours of daylight ? If a man walks in the day , he doesn’ t stumble , because he sees the light of this world .

¹⁰But if a man walks in the night , he stumbles , because the light isn’ t in him .”

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

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

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death , but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep .

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

¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there , so that you may believe . Nevertheless , let ’s go to him .”

¹⁶Thomas therefore , who is called Didymus , said to his fellow disciples , “Let ’s also go , that we may die with him .”[#11:16 “Didymus” means “Twin”.]

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

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem , about fifteen stadia away.[#11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometres or 1.7 miles]

¹⁹Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary , to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming , she went and met him , but Mary stayed in the house .

²¹Therefore Martha said to Jesus , “Lord , if you would have been here , my brother wouldn’t have died .

²²Even now I know that whatever you ask of God , God will give you .”

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

²⁴Martha said 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 . He who believes in me will still live , even if he dies.

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

²⁷She said to him , “Yes , Lord . I have come to believe that you are the Christ , God ’s Son , he who comes into the world .”

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

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

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

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

³²Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him , she fell down at his feet , saying to him , “Lord , if you would have been here , my brother wouldn’t have died .”

³³When Jesus therefore saw her weeping , and the Jews weeping who came with her , he groaned in the spirit and was troubled ,

³⁴and said , “ Where have you laid him ?”

They told him , “Lord , come and see .”

³⁵Jesus wept .

³⁶The Jews therefore said , “See how much affection he had for him !”

³⁷Some of them said , “Couldn’t this man , who opened the eyes of him who was blind , have also kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Jesus therefore , again groaning in himself , came to the tomb . Now it was a cave , and a stone lay against it .

³⁹Jesus said , “Take away the stone .”

Martha , the sister of him who was dead , said to him , “Lord , by this time there is a stench , for he has been dead four days .”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her , “Didn’ t I tell you that if you believed , you would see God ’s glory ?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said , “ Father , I thank you that you listened to me .[#11:41 NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”]

⁴²I know that you always listen to me , but because of the multitude standing around I said this , that they may believe that you sent me .”

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

⁴⁴He who was dead came out , bound hand and foot with wrappings , and his face was wrapped around with a cloth .

Jesus said to them , “ Free him , and let him go .”

⁴⁵Therefore 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 which Jesus had done .

⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council , and said , “What are we doing ? For this man does many signs .

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

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

⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people , and that the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹Now he didn’t say this of himself , but being high priest that year , he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation ,

⁵²and not for the nation only , but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad .

⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly amongst the Jews , but departed from there into the country near the wilderness , to a city called Ephraim . He stayed there with his disciples .

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand . Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover , to purify themselves .

⁵⁶Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple , “What do you think —that he isn’t coming to the feast at all ?”

⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was , he should report it , that they might seize him .