John 11:23–57

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.”

The Jewish Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him. ⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. ⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs! ⁴⁸If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place^h and ourⁱ nation.”

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all! ⁵⁰Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.) ⁵³So from that day they resolved that they should kill him. ⁵⁴So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves. ⁵⁶So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another while^* standing in the temple courts,^* “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” ⁵⁷(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it,^* in order that they could arrest him.)