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.”

¹⁷ When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.

³ On the way they were asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

²¹ He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.

⁴ “Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”