11John 11

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

2It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.Select John 11:2

3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”Select John 11:3

4But 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.”Select John 11:4

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

6When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.Select John 11:6

7Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”Select John 11:7

8The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”Select John 11:8

9Jesus 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.Select John 11:9

10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”Select John 11:10

11He 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.”Select John 11:11

12The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”Select John 11:12

13Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.Select John 11:13

14So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.Select John 11:14

15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”Select John 11:15

16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”Select John 11:16

17So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.Select John 11:17

18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.Select John 11:18

19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.Select John 11:19

20Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.Select John 11:20

21Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.Select John 11:21

22Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”Select John 11:22

23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”Select John 11:23

24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”Select John 11:24

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.Select John 11:25

26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”Select John 11:26

27She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”Select John 11:27

28When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.”Select John 11:28

29When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.Select John 11:29

30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.Select John 11:30

31Then 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.”Select John 11:31

32Therefore 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.”Select John 11:32

33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,Select John 11:33

34and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”Select John 11:34

35Jesus wept.Select John 11:35

36The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”Select John 11:36

37Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”Select John 11:37

38Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.Select John 11:38

39Jesus 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.”Select John 11:39

40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”Select John 11:40

41So 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.Select John 11:41

42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”Select John 11:42

43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”Select John 11:43

44He 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.”Select John 11:44

45Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.Select John 11:45

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

47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.Select John 11:47

48If 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.”Select John 11:48

49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,Select John 11:49

50nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”Select John 11:50

51Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,Select John 11:51

52and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.Select John 11:52

53So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.Select John 11:53

54Jesus 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.Select John 11:54

55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.Select John 11:55

56Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”Select John 11:56

57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.Select John 11:57