Lazarus Dies at Bethany

11 Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany,^(A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha.^{(B) 2} Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair,^(C) and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. ³ So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

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

⁸ “Rabbi,”^(G) the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You,^(H) and You’re going there again?”

⁹ “Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.^{(I) 10} If anyone walks during the night,^(J) he does stumble, because the light is not in him.” ¹¹ He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep,^(K) but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

³² When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet^(A) and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

³³ When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry^[a] in His spirit^(B) and deeply moved. ³⁴ “Where have you put him?” He asked.

“Lord,” they told Him, “come and see.”

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(C)

³⁶ So the Jews said, “See how He loved^(D) him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes^(E) also have kept this man from dying?”

The Seventh Sign: Raising Lazarus from the Dead

³⁸ Then Jesus, angry^[b] in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.^{(F) 39} “Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying.^[c] It’s been four days.”

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory^(G) of God?”^(H)

⁴¹ So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank^(I) You that You heard Me.^{(J) 42} I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent^(K) Me.” ⁴³ After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴ The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”