11:1  Now a certain man became sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

11:2  Mary had previously anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus had become sick.

11:3  So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love has become sick."

11:4  But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness does not end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may receive glorification by it."

11:5  Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

11:6  So when He heard that he had become sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He resided.

11:7  Then after this He said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

11:8  The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews seek to stone You, and You go there again?"

11:9  Jesus answered, "Do we not have twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

11:10  "But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light does not reside in him."

11:11  This He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep."

11:12  The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

11:13  Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He spoke of literal sleep.

11:14  So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

11:15  and I feel glad for your sakes that I could not get there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him."

11:16  Therefore Thomas, who also has the name of Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him."

11:17  So when Jesus came, He found that he had already lain in the tomb four days.

11:18  Now Bethany located near Jerusalem, about two miles off;

11:19  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

11:20  Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house.

11:21  Martha then said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had arrived here sooner, my brother would not have died.

11:22  "Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You."

11:23  Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

11:24  Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

11:25  Jesus said to her, "I represent the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

11:26  and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

11:27  She said to Him, "Yes, Lord; I have believed and acknowledge You as the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world."

11:28  When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, "The Teacher has come here and calls for you."

11:29  And when she heard it, she got up quickly and came to Him.

11:30  Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but remained still in the place where Martha met Him.

11:31  Then the Jews who gathered with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she would go to the tomb to weep there.

11:32  Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus stood, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had come here earlier, my brother would not have died."

11:33  When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He felt deeply moved in spirit and felt troubled,

11:34  and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."

11:35  Jesus wept.

11:36  So the Jews said, "See how He loved him!"

11:37  But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?"

11:38  So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it consisted of a cave, and a stone lying against it.

11:39  Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there will emanate a stench, for he died four days ago."

11:40  Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"

11:41  So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

11:42  "I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me."

11:43  When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth."

11:44  The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face had a cloth wrapped around. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

11:45  Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.

11:46  But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

11:47  Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and said, "What can we do? For this man performs many signs.

11:48  "If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

11:49  But one of them, Caiaphas, who served as high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

11:50  nor do you take into account that it becomes expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

11:51  Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but having served as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

11:52  and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who had scattered abroad.

11:53  So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

11:54  Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

11:55  Now the Passover of the Jews drew near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

11:56  So they sought Jesus, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?"

11:57  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where they could find Him, he should report it, so that they might seize Him.