Book of Common Prayer

¹² Then all the company was silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul, who told what signs and wonders God had shown among the Gentiles by them.

¹³ And afterward, while they held their peace, James spoke, saying, Men and brethren, listen to me. ¹⁴ Simon told how God at the beginning visited the Gentiles and took out of them people for his name. ¹⁵ And to this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written: ¹⁶ After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; and that which is fallen into decay of it, I will build again; and I will set it up, ¹⁷ so that the rest of mankind may seek after the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom my name is named, ¹⁸ says the Lord who does all these things.

Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world. ¹⁹ Therefore my recommendation is that we not trouble those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God, ²⁰ but that we write to them to keep themselves from the defilement of idols, from fornication, from things strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses since ancient times has had those who preach him in every city, and he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.

³⁰ Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met him. ³¹ Then the Jews who were with Mary in the house and comforting her, when they saw that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She is going to the grave, to weep there.

³² Then when Mary arrived where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not be dead.

³³ When Jesus saw her weep, and the Jews who came with her also weep, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled in himself, ³⁴ and said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see. ³⁵ And Jesus wept. ³⁶ Then the Jews said, See how he loved him! ³⁷ And some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind, have made also that this man should not have died? ³⁸ Jesus again groaned in himself, and came to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. ³⁹ And Jesus said, Take away the stone.

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, Lord, by this time he will smell, for he has been dead four days. ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?

⁴¹ Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you, because you have heard me. ⁴² I know that you hear me always. But because of the people that stand by, I said this – so that they may believe that you have sent me.

⁴³ And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! ⁴⁴ And he that was dead came forth wrapped hand and foot with grave bonds, and his face was bound about with a headcloth.

Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.