³ So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”

⁵ So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,

⁷ As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?

²³ The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.^[a]

³⁶ The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!”

¹¹ Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”

²⁰ Erastus stayed at Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.

²⁶ I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill. ²⁷ And he certainly was ill; in fact, he almost died. But God had mercy on him—and also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.