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23 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”

25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[a] Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.” 28 Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.” 29 So Mary immediately went to him.

30 Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him. 31 When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there. 32 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him,[b] and he was deeply troubled. 34 “Where have you put him?” he asked them.

They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Then Jesus wept. 36 The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!” 37 But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”

38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. 39 “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.

But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”

40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:25 Some manuscripts do not include and the life.
  2. 11:33 Or he was angry in his spirit.

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

24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection(A) at the last day.”(B)

25 Jesus said to her, “I am(C) the resurrection and the life.(D) The one who believes(E) in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing(F) in me will never die.(G) Do you believe this?”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah,(H) the Son of God,(I) who is to come into the world.”(J)

28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher(K) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.(L) 31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,(M) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”(N)

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved(O) in spirit and troubled.(P) 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35 Jesus wept.(Q)

36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”(R)

37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man(S) have kept this man from dying?”(T)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved,(U) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.(V) 39 “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”(W)

40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,(X) you will see the glory of God?”(Y)

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