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11:1  Now there was a certain man who was ill, Lazareth of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ·
11:2  It was · this Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped · his feet with her hair, whose · brother Lazarus was ill.
11:3  So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Lord, the one you love is ill.”
11:4  But when Jesus heard · this, he said, “This · illness will not lead to death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
11:5  Now Jesus loved · · Martha and · her sister and · Lazarus.
11:6  So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed in the place where he was for two more days.
11:7  Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to · Judea again.”
11:8  The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, just recently the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?”
11:9  Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If a person walks during the day, he will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
11:10  But if someone walks during the night, he will stumble, because the light is not in him.”
11:11  These things he said, and after that he told them, “Our friend Lazarus · has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him from sleep.”
11:12  The disciples therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
11:13  Jesus, however, had been speaking · of · his death, but they thought that he was speaking about · sleep in the sense of slumber.
11:14  Then Jesus told them · plainly, “Lazarus has died,
11:15  and for your sake that you might believe, I am glad that I was not there. But let us go to him.”
11:16  So Thomas (called the Twin), said · to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
11:17  Now when Jesus arrived, · he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
11:18  Bethany was · · near · Jerusalem, about two miles away,
11:19  and many of the Jews had come to · Martha and Mary to console them in regard to their brother.
11:20  · So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary remained in the house.
11:21  Martha then said · to · Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ·
11:22  But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of · him.” ·
11:23  Jesus said to her, · “Your brother will rise again.” ·
11:24  Martha said to him, · “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
11:25  Jesus said to her, · “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even though he die, yet will he live,
11:26  and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
11:27  She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I firmly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world.”
11:28  And when she had said this, she went back and spoke privately to her sister Mary, · saying, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
11:29  So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
11:30  Now Jesus had not yet entered · the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. ·
11:31  When the Jews, who were with Mary in the house · consoling her saw · that she had gotten up quickly and gone out, they followed her, assuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
11:32  · When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his · feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ·
11:33  When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was deeply moved in his · spirit and greatly distressed.
11:34  · He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.”
11:35  Jesus burst into tears. ·
11:36  So the Jews kept saying, “See how he loved him!”
11:37  But some of them said, “Was not this man, who could open the eyes of the blind man, able to do something so that · Lazarus would not have died?”
11:38  Then Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was · a cave, and a stone was lying across it.
11:39  Jesus said, · “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by now the body will smell because it has been buried for four days.”
11:40  Jesus said to her, · “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”
11:41  So they took away the stone. · Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
11:42  I · know that you always hear me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd · standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
11:43  · When he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!
11:44  The dead man came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and · his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, · “Unwrap him, and let him go.”
11:45  Therefore many of the Jews who had come with · Mary and seen what he had done, believed in him.
11:46  Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
11:47  So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council together and said, “What are we going to do? For this · man is performing many signs.
11:48  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our · holy place and · our nation.”
11:49  But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest · that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.
11:50  Or do you not realize that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation should not perish?”
11:51  He did not say this · on his own, but being high priest · that year he was prophesying that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
11:52  and not only for the nation, but that · he should gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
11:53  So from that · day on they planned to put him to death.
11:54  · Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.
11:55  Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country prior to the Passover to purify themselves.
11:56  They were looking for · Jesus and were talking with one another as they were standing in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”
11:57  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was he should let them know, so they might arrest him.