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Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill. So the sisters sent word to Jesus[a] and told him, “Lord, the one whom you love is ill.”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness isn’t meant to end in death. It’s for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 11:3 Lit. sent to him