John 11:1-30

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

2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

3So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

4When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

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

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

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

8“Rabbi,” the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you’re going there again?”

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

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

11He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on my way to wake him up.”

12Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

13Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep.

14So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.

15I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

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

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

18Bethany was near Jerusalem (less than two miles away).

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

20As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

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

22Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

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

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. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.

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

27“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

28Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

29As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

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