John 11:1-30

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

2This was the same Miriam who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

3So the sisters sent a word to Yeshua, saying, “Master, the one you love is sick!”

4When Yeshua heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. It is for God’s glory, so that Ben-Elohim may be glorified through it.”

5Now Yeshua loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6However, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two more days.

7Then after this, He said to His disciples, “Let’s go up to Judea again.”

8“Rabbi,” the disciples say to Him, “just now the Judean leaders were trying to stone You! And You’re going back there again?”

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

10But if a man should walk around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

11After He said this, He tells them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m going there to wake him up.”

12So the disciples said to Him, “Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get better.”

13Now Yeshua had spoken about his death, but they thought He was talking about ordinary sleep.

14Then Yeshua told them clearly, “Lazarus is dead!

15I’m glad for your sake I wasn’t there, so that you may believe. Anyway, let’s go to him!”

16Then Thomas called the Twin said to the other disciples, “Let’s go too, so that we may die with Him!”

17So when Yeshua arrived, He discovered that Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days.

18Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

19and many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Miriam to console them about their brother.

20When Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Miriam sat in the house.

21Martha said to Yeshua, “Master, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!

22But I know, even now, that whatever You may ask of God, He will give You.”

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

24Martha said to Him, “I know, he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

25Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life! Whoever believes in Me, even if he dies, shall live.

26And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

27She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, Ben-Elohim who has come into the world.”

28After she said this, she left and secretly told her sister Miriam, “The Teacher is here, and He’s calling for you.”

29As soon as Miriam heard, she quickly got up and was coming to Him.

30Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.