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John 11 (New International Version)
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John 11
The Death of Lazarus
1Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village
of Mary and her sister Martha. 2This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now
lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped
his feet with her hair. 3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the
one you love is sick."
4When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in
death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified
through it." 5Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6Yet when
he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.
7Then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
8"But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews tried to stone
you, and yet you are going back there?"
9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who
walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light. 10It
is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light."
11After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend
Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."
12His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better."
13Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he
meant natural sleep.
14So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, 15and for your sake
I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to
him."
16Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples,
"Let us also go, that we may die with him."
Jesus Comforts the Sisters
17On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the
tomb for four days. 18Bethany was less than two miles[a] from
Jerusalem, 19and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them
in the loss of their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was
coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
21"Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother
would not have died. 22But I know that even now God will give you
whatever you ask."
23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at
the last day."
25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and
believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
27"Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ,[b]
the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
28And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister
Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you."
29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30Now
Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place
where Martha had met him. 31When the Jews who had been with Mary in
the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went
out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn
there.
32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell
at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would
not have died."
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with
her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34"Where
have you laid him?" he asked.
"Come and see, Lord," they replied.
35Jesus wept.
36Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the
blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead
38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with
a stone laid across the entrance. 39"Take away the stone," he said.
"But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this
time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."
40Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you
would see the glory of God?"
41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said,
"Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always
hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,
that they may believe that you sent me."
43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out!" 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips
of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen
what Jesus did, put their faith in him. 46But some of them went to the
Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47Then the chief priests
and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
"What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man
performing many miraculous signs. 48If we let him go on like this,
everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take
away both our place[c] and our nation."
49Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,
spoke up, "You know nothing at all! 50You do not realize that it is
better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole
nation perish."
51He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he
prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52and not only
for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring
them together and make them one. 53So from that day on they plotted to
take his life.
54Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews.
Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called
Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from
the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the
Passover. 56They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the
temple area they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he
coming to the Feast at all?" 57But the chief priests and Pharisees had
given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should
report it so that they might arrest him.
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