Gospels & ActsNew Testament
Chapter 11· Book IV of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.” 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.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.” 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.” 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.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. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.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.” 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.” 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.” 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25Verse 25. Open verse actions.Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26Verse 26. Open verse actions.Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27Verse 27. Open verse actions.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.” 28Verse 28. Open verse actions.When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.” 29Verse 29. Open verse actions.When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him. 30Verse 30. Open verse actions.Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 31Verse 31. Open verse actions.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.” 32Verse 32. Open verse actions.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.” 33Verse 33. Open verse actions.When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34Verse 34. Open verse actions.and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35Verse 35. Open verse actions.Jesus wept. 36Verse 36. Open verse actions.The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” 37Verse 37. Open verse actions.Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?” 38Verse 38. Open verse actions.Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39Verse 39. Open verse actions.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.” 40Verse 40. Open verse actions.Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?” 41Verse 41. Open verse actions.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. 42Verse 42. Open verse actions.I 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.” 43Verse 43. Open verse actions.When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44Verse 44. Open verse actions.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.” 45Verse 45. Open verse actions.Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46Verse 46. Open verse actions.But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. 47Verse 47. Open verse actions.The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48Verse 48. Open verse actions.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.” 49Verse 49. Open verse actions.But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50Verse 50. Open verse actions.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.” 51Verse 51. Open verse actions.Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52Verse 52. Open verse actions.and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53Verse 53. Open verse actions.So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. 54Verse 54. Open verse actions.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. 55Verse 55. Open verse actions.Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56Verse 56. Open verse actions.Then 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?” 57Verse 57. Open verse actions.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.