1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus
from Bethany, of the village of Mary and
her sister, Martha.
2 It was that Mary who had anointed
the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet
with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
sick.
3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying,
“Lord, behold, he for whom you have
great affection is sick.”
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This
sickness is not to death, but for the glory of
God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister,
and Lazarus.
6 When therefore he heard that he was
sick, he stayed two days in the place where
he was.
7 Then after this he said to the disciples,
“Let’s go into Judea again.”
8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the
Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you
going there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve
hours of daylight? If a man walks in the
day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees
the light of this world.
10 But if a man walks in the night, he
stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
11 He said these things, and after that,
he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has
fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may
awake him out of sleep.”
12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if
he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but
they thought that he spoke of taking rest in
sleep.
14 So Jesus said to them plainly then,
“Lazarus is dead.
15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless,
let’s go to him.”
16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,†
said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also
go, that we may die with him.”
17 So when Jesus came, he found that he
had been in the tomb four days already.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem,
about fifteen stadia‡ away.
19 Many of the Jews had joined the
women around Martha and Mary, to console
them concerning their brother.
20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus
was coming, she went and met him, but
Mary stayed in the house.
21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord,
if you would have been here, my brother
wouldn’t have died.
22 Even now I know that whatever you
ask of God, God will give you.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will
rise again.”
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he
will rise again in the resurrection at the
last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection
and the life. He who believes in me
will still live, even if he dies.
26 Whoever lives and believes in me will
never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have
come to believe that you are the Christ,
God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
28 When she had said this, she went away
and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying,
“The Teacher is here and is calling
you.”
29 When she heard this, she arose
quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the
village, but was in the place where Martha
met him.
31 Then the Jews who were with her in
the house and were consoling her, when
they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly
and went out, followed her, saying, “She is
going to the tomb to weep there.”
32 Therefore when Mary came to where
Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at
his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would
have been here, my brother wouldn’t have
died.”
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping,
and the Jews weeping who came with
her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,
34 and said, “Where have you laid him?”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus wept.
36 The Jews therefore said, “See how
much affection he had for him!” 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man,
who opened the eyes of him who was
blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in
himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a
cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead,
said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a
stench, for he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you
that if you believed, you would see God’s
glory?”
41 So they took away the stone from the
place where the dead man was lying.§ Jesus
lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I
thank you that you listened to me.
42 I know that you always listen to me,
but because of the multitude standing
around I said this, that they may believe
that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, he cried with a
loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 He who was dead came out, bound
hand and foot with wrappings, and his face
was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him
go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews who came
to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in
him.
46 But some of them went away to the
Pharisees and told them the things which
Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests therefore and the
Pharisees gathered a council, and said,
“What are we doing? For this man does
many signs.
48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone
will believe in him, and the Romans
will come and take away both our place
and our nation.” 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas,
being high priest that year, said to them,
“You know nothing at all,
50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous
for us that one man should die for
the people, and that the whole nation not
perish.”
51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but
being high priest that year, he prophesied
that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but that
he might also gather together into one the
children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day forward they took
counsel that they might put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more
openly among the Jews, but departed from
there into the country near the wilderness,
to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there
with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at
hand. Many went up from the country to
Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify
themselves.
56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke
with one another as they stood in the temple,
“What do you think—that he isn’t coming
to the feast at all?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees
had commanded that if anyone knew
where he was, he should report it, that they
might seize him.
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