John 11:33-44

J.B. Phillips New Testament

³³ When Jesus saw Mary weep and noticed the tears of the Jews who came with her, he was deeply moved and visibly distressed.

³⁴ “Where have you put him?” he asked.

³⁵ “Lord, come and see,” they replied, and at this Jesus himself wept.

^36-37 “Look how much he loved him!” remarked the Jews, though some of them asked, “Could he not have kept this man from dying if he could open that blind man’s eyes?”

³⁸ Jesus was again deeply moved at these words, and went on to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay in front of it.

³⁹ “Take away the stone,” said Jesus. “But Lord,” said Martha, the dead man’s sister, “he has been dead four days. By this time he will be decaying ....”

⁴⁰ “Did I not tell you,” replied Jesus, “that if you believed, you would see the wonder of what God can do?”

^41-42 Then they took the stone away and Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of these people standing here so that they may believe that you have sent me.”

⁴³ And when he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴ And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with grave-clothes and his face muffled with a handkerchief. “Now unbind him,” Jesus told them, “and let him go home.”