³ So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love^(A) is sick.”

⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

⁷ Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.^(C) For what children are not disciplined by their father?

²⁰ Erastus^(A) stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus^(B) sick in Miletus.^(C)

²⁶ For he longs for all of you^(A) and is distressed because you heard he was ill. ²⁷ Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

²³ One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^(A) was reclining next to him.

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

¹¹ After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend^(A) Lazarus has fallen asleep;^(B) but I am going there to wake him up.”