11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus 9 was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days. 11:7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 10 11:8 The disciples replied, 11 “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders 12 were just now trying 13 to stone you to death! Are 14 you going there again?” 11:9 Jesus replied, 15 “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, 16 because he sees the light of this world. 17 11:10 But if anyone walks around at night, 18 he stumbles, 19 because the light is not in him.”
11:11 After he said this, he added, 20 “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. 21 But I am going there to awaken him.” 11:12 Then the disciples replied, 22 “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about 23 his death, but they 24 thought he had been talking about real sleep.) 25
11:14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 11:15 and I am glad 26 for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. 27 But let us go to him.” 11:16 So Thomas (called Didymus 28 ) 29 said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.” 30
11:17 When 31 Jesus arrived, 32 he found that Lazarus 33 had been in the tomb four days already. 34 11:18 (Now Bethany was less than two miles 35 from Jerusalem, 36 11:19 so many of the Jewish people of the region 37 had come to Martha and Mary to console them 38 over the loss of their brother.) 39 11:20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 40 11:21 Martha 41 said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 11:22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant 42 you.” 43
11:23 Jesus replied, 44 “Your brother will come back to life again.” 45 11:24 Martha said, 46 “I know that he will come back to life again 47 in the resurrection at the last day.” 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live 48 even if he dies, 11:26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. 49 Do you believe this?” 11:27 She replied, 50 “Yes, Lord, I believe 51 that you are the Christ, 52 the Son of God who comes into the world.” 53
11:28 And when she had said this, Martha 54 went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, 55 “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.” 56 11:29 So when Mary 57 heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.) 11:31 Then the people 58 who were with Mary 59 in the house consoling her saw her 60 get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep 61 there.
11:32 Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people 62 who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved 63 in spirit and greatly distressed. 64 11:34 He asked, 65 “Where have you laid him?” 66 They replied, 67 “Lord, come and see.” 11:35 Jesus wept. 68 11:36 Thus the people who had come to mourn 69 said, “Look how much he loved him!” 11:37 But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! 70 Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus 71 from dying?”
11:38 Jesus, intensely moved 72 again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) 73 11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” 74 Martha, the sister of the deceased, 75 replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, 76 because he has been buried 77 four days.” 78 11:40 Jesus responded, 79 “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?” 11:41 So they took away 80 the stone. Jesus looked upward 81 and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. 82 11:42 I knew that you always listen to me, 83 but I said this 84 for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 11:43 When 85 he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, 86 “Lazarus, come out!” 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, 87 and a cloth wrapped around his face. 88 Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him 89 and let him go.”
11:45 Then many of the people, 90 who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus 91 did, believed in him. 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees 92 and reported to them 93 what Jesus had done. 11:47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees 94 called the council 95 together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 11:48 If we allow him to go on in this way, 96 everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary 97 and our nation.”
11:49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, 98 “You know nothing at all! 11:50 You do not realize 99 that it is more to your advantage to have one man 100 die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” 101 11:51 (Now he did not say this on his own, 102 but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, 103 11:52 and not for the Jewish nation 104 only, 105 but to gather together 106 into one the children of God who are scattered.) 107 11:53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.
11:54 Thus Jesus no longer went 108 around publicly 109 among the Judeans, 110 but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, 111 and stayed there with his disciples. 11:55 Now the Jewish feast of Passover 112 was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem 113 from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually. 114 11:56 Thus they were looking for Jesus, 115 and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, 116 “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?” 11:57 (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees 117 had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus 118 was should report it, so that they could arrest 119 him.) 120