²⁸ After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher^(A) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” ²⁹ When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.^{(B) 31} When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(C) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

³² When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”^(D)

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved^(E) in spirit and troubled.^{(F) 34} “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(G)

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

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(I) have kept this man from dying?”^(J)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved,^(K) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.^{(L) 39} “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”^(M)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(N) you will see the glory of God?”^(O)

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(P) and said, “Father,^(Q) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(R) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(S)

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(T) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(U) and a cloth around his face.^(V)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews

³⁷ Even after Jesus had performed so many signs^(A) in their presence, they still would not believe in him. ³⁸ This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory^(D) and spoke about him.^(E)

⁴² Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.^(F) But because of the Pharisees^(G) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;^{(H) 43} for they loved human praise^(I) more than praise from God.^(J)

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(K) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(L) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(M) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^{(N) 48} There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(O) at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(P) to say all that I have spoken. ⁵⁰ I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(Q) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”^(R)