John 11:1-18

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

2It was [the] Mary who 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 whom thou lovest is sick.

4But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of 1God, that the Son of 2God may be glorified by it.

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

6When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.

7Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

8The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?

9Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;

10but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

11These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

12The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.

13But Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

14Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.

15And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

16Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

17Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.

18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,