John 11:1–25

LAZARUS DIES AT BETHANY

11Now a man was sick—Lazarus from Bethany,^an the village of Mary and her sister Martha.^{ao 2}Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair,^ap and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. ³So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

⁴When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,^aq so that the Son of God^ar may be glorified through it.” ⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was. ⁷Then after that, he said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea^as again.”

⁸“Rabbi,”^a the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you,^b and you’re going there again?”

⁹“Aren’t there twelve hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.^{c 10}But if anyone walks during the night,^d he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

¹¹He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep,^e but I’m on my way to wake him up.”

¹²Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

¹³Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep. ¹⁴So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died. ¹⁵I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

¹⁶Then Thomas^f (called “Twin”^A) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too so that we may die with him.”

THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

¹⁷When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb^g four days. ¹⁸Bethany was near Jerusalem^h (less than two miles^B away). ¹⁹Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. ²⁰As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

²¹Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. ²²Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

²³“Your brother will riseⁱ again,” Jesus told her.

²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”^j

²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am^k the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me,^l even if he dies, will live.^m