John 11:1-16

Evangelical Heritage Version

Jesus Raises Lazarus

11 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the same Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.

³ So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, saying, “Lord, the one you love is sick!”

⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not going to result in death, but it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed in the place where he was two more days.

⁷ Then afterwards he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, recently the Jews were trying to stone you. And you are going back there again?”

⁹ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks around during the day, he does not stumble because he sees this world’s light. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles because there is no light on him.”

¹¹ He said this and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

¹² Then the disciples said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

¹³ Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought he was merely talking about ordinary sleep. ¹⁴ So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

¹⁶ Then Thomas (called the Twin^[a]) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too, so that we may die with him.”