The New Heaven and the New Earth

21 Then I saw ^(A)a new heaven and a new earth, for ^(B)the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. ² And I saw ^(C)the holy city, ^(D)new Jerusalem, ^(E)coming down out of heaven from God, ^(F)prepared ^(G)as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, ^(H)the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will ^(I)dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^{[c] 4 (J)}He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and ^(K)death shall be no more, ^(L)neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

⁵ And ^(M)he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I ^(N)am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for ^(O)these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he said to me, ^(P)“It is done! ^(Q)I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. ^(R)To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

³² Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, ^(A)“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he ^(B)was deeply moved^[a] in his spirit and ^(C)greatly troubled. ³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ^35 (D)Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews said, “See ^(E)how he loved him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he ^(F)who opened the eyes of the blind man ^(G)also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

³⁸ Then Jesus, ^(H)deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was ^(I)a cave, and ^(J)a stone lay against it. ³⁹ Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for ^(K)he has been dead four days.” ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, ^(L)“Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see ^(M)the glory of God?” ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus ^(N)lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ^42 (O)I knew that you always hear me, but I said this ^(P)on account of the people standing around, ^(Q)that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³ When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” ^44 (R)The man who had died came out, ^(S)his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and ^(T)his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”