The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of ^(A)Mary and her sister Martha. ^2 (B)It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. ³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, ^(C)he whom you love is ill.” ⁴ But when Jesus heard it he said, ^(D)“This illness does not lead to death. It is for ^(E)the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵ Now ^(F)Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So, when he heard that Lazarus^[a] was ill, ^(G)he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. ⁷ Then after this he said to the disciples, ^(H)“Let us go to Judea again.”

I Am the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb ^(A)four days.

^20 (A)So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. ²¹ Martha said to ^(B)Jesus, “Lord, ^(C)if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, ^(D)God will give you.” ²³ Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ^24 (E)Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in ^(F)the resurrection on the last day.” ²⁵ Jesus said to her, ^(G)“I am the resurrection and ^(H)the life.^[a] Whoever believes in me, ^(I)though he die, ^(J)yet shall he live, ²⁶ and everyone who lives and believes in me ^(K)shall never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷ She said to him, “Yes, Lord; ^(L)I believe that ^(M)you are the Christ, the Son of God, ^(N)who is coming into the world.”

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he ^(A)was deeply moved^[a] in his spirit and ^(B)greatly troubled. ³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ^35 (C)Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews said, “See ^(D)how he loved him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he ^(E)who opened the eyes of the blind man ^(F)also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

³⁸ Then Jesus, ^(G)deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was ^(H)a cave, and ^(I)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 ^(J)he has been dead four days.” ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, ^(K)“Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see ^(L)the glory of God?” ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus ^(M)lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ^42 (N)I knew that you always hear me, but I said this ^(O)on account of the people standing around, ^(P)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 (Q)The man who had died came out, ^(R)his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and ^(S)his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”