1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2This was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one you love is sick.”
4But when Jesus heard, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6So when he heard that he was sick, he then remained in the place where he was for two days.
7Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and you are going there again?”
9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to awaken him.”
12The disciples therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
13Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought he was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
14Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
15and for your sakes I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16Thomas, who is called Didymus, therefore said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
17So when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
19And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21Martha therefore said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22Even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will give you.”
23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
28And when she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29When she heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
31So the Jews who were with her in the house and consoling her, when they saw Mary rise quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32So when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33So when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and was deeply troubled.
34And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35Jesus wept.
36So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!”
37But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also kept this one from dying?”
38Jesus, therefore, again deeply moved within himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was laid against it.
39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, by now there is a stench, for he has been dead 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 lifted his eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42Now I knew that you always hear me, but I said this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you sent me.”
43And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44The man who had died came out, his feet and hands bound with linen strips, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and let him go.”
45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him.
46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and were saying, “What are we to do? For this man is performing many signs.
48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
50nor do you consider that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.”
51Now he did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
52and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the scattered children of God.
53So from that day on, they plotted to put him to death.
54Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples.
55Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the countryside before the Passover to purify themselves.
56So they were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?”
57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.
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