John 11:1-30

1Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

2(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

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

4When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

5(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

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

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

8The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

9Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

11After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

12Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

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

16So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

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

18(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

19so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

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

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

22But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

23Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.”

24Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life 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 will live even if he dies,

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

27She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

28And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

29So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

30(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)