John 11:1–25

Lazarus Dies

11Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ²(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³So the sisters sent word^* to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick.” ⁴And when he^* heard it,^* Jesus said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁵(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) ⁶So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place where^a he was two days.

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” ⁸The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ¹¹He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him.” ¹²So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.” ¹³(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.^b) ¹⁴So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died, ¹⁵and I am glad for your sake^c that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ¹⁶Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)^d said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷So when he^* arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb. ¹⁸(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.^{e 19}So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their^* brother.) ²⁰Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. ²¹So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²Even^f now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you.” ²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” ²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,