John 11:23–57

²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴Martha said to Him, “^aI know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

²⁵Jesus said to her, “^aI am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in Me ^awill never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are ^1athe Christ, the Son of God, even ^2bHe who comes into the world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she ^awent away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “^bThe Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

²⁹And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to Him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but ^awas still in the place where Martha met Him.

^31aThen the Jews who were with her in the house, and ^bconsoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³²Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “^aLord, ^bif You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

³³When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and ^athe Jews who came with her also weeping, He ^bwas deeply moved in spirit and ^1cwas troubled,

³⁴and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus ^awept.

³⁶So ^athe Jews were saying, “See how He ^bloved him!”

³⁷But some of them said, “Could not this man, who ^aopened the eyes of the blind man, ¹have kept this man also from dying?”

³⁸So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a ^acave, and a stone was lying against it.

³⁹Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time ¹there will be a stench, for he has been dead ^afour days.”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “^aDid I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

⁴¹So they removed the ^astone. Then Jesus ^braised His eyes, and said, “^cFather, I thank You that You have heard Me.

⁴²“I knew that You always hear Me; but ^abecause of the ¹people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that ^bYou sent Me.”

⁴³When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”

⁴⁴The man who had died came forth, ^abound hand and foot with wrappings, and ^bhis face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

^45aTherefore many of the Jews ^bwho came to Mary, and ^csaw what He had done, believed in Him.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the ^aPharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

Conspiracy to Kill Jesus

⁴⁷Therefore ^athe chief priests and the Pharisees ^bconvened a ^ccouncil, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many ^1dsigns.

⁴⁸“If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our ^aplace and our nation.”

⁴⁹But one of them, ^aCaiaphas, ^bwho was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

⁵⁰nor do you take into account that ^ait is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹Now he did not say this ¹on his own initiative, but ^abeing high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ^agather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day on they ^aplanned together to kill Him.

⁵⁴Therefore Jesus ^ano longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called ^bEphraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now ^athe Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover ^bto purify themselves.

⁵⁶So they ^awere seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?”

⁵⁷Now ^athe chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.