Book of Common Prayer

¹³ And I am speaking to you, the Gentiles. So indeed to the extent^[a] I am an apostle of the Gentiles I glorify^[b] my ministry— ¹⁴ if somehow^[c] I might provoke my flesh to jealousy and save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection^[d] is reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance^[e] be if not life from the dead?

Their Branches Were Broken Off By Unbelief And You Were Grafted In By Faith

¹⁶ But^[f] if the firstfruit^[g] is holy, the lump is also. And if the root is holy, the branches are also. ¹⁷ Now if some of the branches were broken-off ^[h] and you^[i], being a wild-olive-tree, were grafted-in among them and became a co-partner^[j] of the root, of the fatness^[k] of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not be vaunting^[l] over the branches. But if you vaunt, [remember] you are not carrying the root, but the root you. ¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off in order that I might be grafted-in”. ²⁰ Well said! They were broken off by their unbelief, and you stand by your faith. Do not be thinking lofty^[m] things, but be fearing^[n]— ²¹ for if God did not spare the branches in accordance with nature, perhaps^[o] neither will He spare you.

They Will Be Re-Grafted If They Believe

²² Therefore behold the kindness and severity of God— severity upon the ones having fallen, but the kindness of God upon you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³ But those ones also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted-in. For God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off from the wild-olive-tree according to nature and were grafted-in contrary to nature into a cultivated-olive-tree, how much more will these, the ones in accordance with nature, be grafted-in their own olive tree!

Jesus Hears That Lazarus Is Sick

11 Now there was a certain one being sick— Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha, her sister. ² And it was Mary, the one having anointed^[a] the Lord with perfume and having wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. ³ So the sisters sent out a message to Him, saying, “Lord, look— the one whom You love is sick”. ⁴ And having heard, Jesus said “This sickness is not leading to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it”.

Jesus Returns To Judea To Raise Lazarus From The Dead

⁵ Now Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶ So when He heard that he was sick, at that time He remained for two days in which place He was— ⁷ then after this, says to the disciples, “Let us be going to Judea again”. ⁸ The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just-now seeking to stone You, and You are going there again?” ⁹ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of the day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if one walks during the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him”. ¹¹ He said these things, and after this He says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep, but I am going in order that I may awaken him”. ¹² So the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be restored”. ¹³ Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but those ones thought that He was speaking concerning the sleep of slumber^[b]. ¹⁴ So at-that-time Jesus said to them with plainness, “Lazarus died. ¹⁵ And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us be going to him”. ¹⁶ Then Thomas, the one being called Didymus^[c], said to his fellow-disciples, “Let us indeed be going, so that we may die with Him^[d]”.

Jesus Says, I Am The Resurrection And The Life. The One Believing In Me Will Live

¹⁷ So having come, Jesus found him already having four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stades^[e] away. ¹⁹ And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary in order that they might console them concerning their brother. ²⁰ So Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, met Him. But Mary was sitting in the house. ²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² But even now I know that whatever You ask God, God will give You”. ²³ Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise-up”. ²⁴ Martha says to Him, “I know that he will rise-up in the resurrection at the last day”. ²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one believing in Me— even though he dies, he will live. ²⁶ And everyone living and believing in Me will never die, ever. Do you believe this?” ²⁷ She says to Him, “Yes, Lord. I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world”.

In Bethany At a Dinner For Jesus And Lazarus, Mary Anoints Jesus

12 Therefore Jesus, six days before the Passover [Feast], came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. ² So they made a dinner for Him there. And Martha was serving. And Lazarus was one of the ones reclining-back [to eat] with Him. ³ Then Mary, having taken a pound of very-valuable genuine^[a] nard perfume, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. ⁴ But Judas the Iscariot— one of His disciples, the one going to hand Him over— says, ⁵ “For what reason was this perfume not sold for three-hundred denarii^[b] and given to poor ones?” ⁶ Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. And having the money-box, he was carrying^[c] the things being put there. ⁷ So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. It was^[d] in order that she might keep it for the day of My preparation-for-burial. ⁸ For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me”. ⁹ Then the large crowd^[e] of the Jews came-to-know that He was there. And they came— not because of Jesus only, but in order that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead. ¹⁰ And the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,