John:11

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* Now a man named Lazarus was ill . He was from Bethany , the village of Mary and her sister Martha * - it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair , whose brother Lazarus was ill . * So the sisters sent to him , saying . "Master , see who you hold dear is ill ." * When Jesus heard it he said , "This illness is not unto death , but for the glory of God , that through it the Son of God may be glorified ." * Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus . * However , when he heard that he was ill , * he still remained where he was for two days ; then after that he said to his disciples , "Let us go back again to Judea ." * "Rabbi ," answered his disciples , "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you , and are you going there again ?" * Jesus replied . "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime ? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble , because he beholds the light of this world ; * but if any one walks during the night he does stumble , because the light is not in him ." * This he said , then told them , "Lazarus , our friend , has fallen asleep , but I am going to wake him ." * "Master , if he has fallen asleep , he will get well ," replied the disciples . * Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death , but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep . * So then he told them plainly . * "Lazarus is dead ; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there , in order that you may believe . Come , let us go to him ." * Upon this Thomas , who was called "The Twin ," said to his fellow disciples , "Let us go too , that we may die with him ." * so when Jesus arrived , he found that Lazarus had already been four days in the tomb . * Now Bethany was near Jerusalem , only about two miles away ; * so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother . * So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming , she went to meet him , but Mary remained sitting in the house . * Then Martha said to Jesus . "Master , had you been here my brother would not have died ; * but even now I know that whatever you ask of God , God will give you ." * Jesus said to her , "Your brother will rise again ." * Martha answered , "I know that he will rise in the resurrection , at the Last Day ." * "I am the resurrection and the life , "said Jesus . "He who believes in me , even if he has died , shall live . * And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die . Do you believe this ?" * "Yes , Master ," she answered , "I have come to believe that you are the Christ , the Son of God , who was to come into the world ." * With these words she went away to call her sister Mary , saying privately , "The Teacher is here and is asking for you ." * So when Mary heard this , she rose quickly and went to meet him . * Jesus had not yet arrived in the village , but was still at the place where Martha met him . * Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her , when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out , followed her , because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there . * When Mary came to the place where Jesus was , and saw him , she fell at his feet , saying , "Master had you been here , my brother would not have died ." * Then when Jesus saw her sobbing , and the Jews likewise who accompanied her , sobbing , he shuddered with indignation in his spirit , and was deeply agitated . * "Where have you laid him ?" he said . "Master , come and see ," they answered . * Jesus burst into tears . * "See how he loved him ," said the Jews . But some of them said , * "Could not this man , who has opened the eyes of the blind man , have prevented this man also from dying ?" * Jesus therefore , again shuddering in himself with indignation , came to the tomb , which was a cave with a stone lying upon it . * "Roll away the stone ," said Jesus . "Master ," said Martha , the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time , for he has been four days in the tomb ." * Jesus answered her , "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God ?" * Then they rolled the stone away ; and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said . * "Father , I thank thee that thou hast listened to me . And I knew that thou art ever listening to me , but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about , I said it , in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me ." * When he had said this he cried with a great voice , "Lazarus , come forth !" * Out came the dead man , wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes , and his face bound up in a napkin . Jesus said to them , "Untie him , and let him go ." * Many of the Jews , therefore , who had come with Mary , and had seen what he did , believed on him ; * but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done . * So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin . * "What are we going to do ?" they said , "now that this man is performing many signs ?" If we leave him alone , this way , every one will believe on him , and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people ." * But one of their number , Caiaphas by name , who was high priest that year , said to them , * "You know nothing at all , nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people , rather than the whole nation be destroyed ." * now he did not say this of his own accord ; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation , * and not in behalf of the nation alone , but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God . * So from that day they plotted to kill him . * Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews , but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim , * and there remained with his disciples . Now the Jewish Passover was near , and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover . * So they kept 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 ?" * Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was . he should give information , so that they might arrest him .

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