Book of Common Prayer

¹¹ Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning: that we should be loving one another. ¹² Not as Cain. He was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil, but the ones of his brother were righteous. ¹³ And do not be marveling, brothers, if the world hates you! ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we are loving the brothers. The one not loving is abiding^[a] in death. ¹⁵ Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶ By this we have come-to-know love: because that One laid-down His life for us. And we ought to lay-down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But whoever has the goods of the world and sees his brother having a need and shuts his deep-feelings from him, how is the love of God abiding in him? ¹⁸ Little children, let us not be loving with word nor tongue, but in deed and truth.

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]”.