John 11:23–44

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, ²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever.^g Do you believe this?” ²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸And when she^* had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” ²⁹So that one, when she heard it,^* got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.) ³¹So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they^* saw Mary—that she stood up quickly and went out—followed her, because they^* thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

³²Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and^* saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself. ³⁴And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵Jesus wept. ³⁶So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!” ³⁷But some of them said, “Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something^* so that this man also would not have died?”

Lazarus Is Raised

³⁸Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his^* eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me. ⁴²And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it,^* so that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³And when he^* had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴The one who had died came out, his^* feet and his^* hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”