John Chapter 11 Vs 1-44

The Raising of Lazarus.^*1Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany,^a the village of Mary and her sister Martha.2Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.3So the sisters sent word to him, saying, "Master, the one you love is ill."4When Jesus heard this he said, "This illness is not to end in death,^* but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."^b5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.6So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was.7Then after this he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."8The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?"^c9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day,^d he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.^e10But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."^*11He said this, and then told them, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him."12So the disciples said to him, "Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved."13But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.^f14So then Jesus said to them clearly, "Lazarus has died.15And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him."16So Thomas, called Didymus,^* said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go to die with him."^g

17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles^* away.19And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.^h20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.21Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.ⁱ22[But] even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise."24Martha said to him, "I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day."^j25Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,^k26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"27^* ^l She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world."

28When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, "The teacher is here and is asking for you."29As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him.30For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him.31So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.32When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."33When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed^* and deeply troubled,34and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Sir, come and see."35And Jesus wept.^m36So the Jews said, "See how he loved him."37But some of them said, "Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?"

38So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.39Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, "Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days."40Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?"41So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, "Father,^* I thank you for hearing me.42I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me."ⁿ43And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice,^* "Lazarus, come out!"44The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."