## The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus 

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Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 

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And it was _the_ Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 

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So the sisters sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick." 

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But when Jesus heard _this_, He said, **"This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."** 

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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 

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So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days in the place where He was. 

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Then after this He *said to the disciples, **"Let us go to Judea again."** 

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The disciples *said to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?" 

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Jesus answered, **"Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.** 

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But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him." 

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He said these things, and after that He *said to them, **"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him."** 

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The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be saved _from his sickness_." 

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Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of actual sleep. 

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So Jesus then said to them plainly, **"Lazarus is dead,** 

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and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him." 

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Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to _his_ fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him." 

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So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 

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Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away; 

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and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother. 

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Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 

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Martha then said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 

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But even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You." 

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Jesus *said to her, **"Your brother will rise again."** 

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Martha *said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." 

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Jesus said to her, **"I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,** 

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and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die--ever. Do you believe this?" 

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She *said to Him, "Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One who comes into the world." 

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And when she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 

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

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

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Then the Jews--who were with her in the house and consoling her--when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to cry there. 

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Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died." 

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When Jesus therefore saw her crying, and the Jews who came with her _also_ crying, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled, 

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and said, **"Where have you laid him?"** They *said to Him, "Lord, come and see." 

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Jesus wept. 

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So the Jews were saying, "See how He loved him!" 

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But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?" 

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

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Jesus *said, **"Remove the stone."** Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, "Lord, by this time he smells, for he has been _dead_ four days." 

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Jesus *said to her, **"Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"** 

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So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, **"Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.** 

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And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around I said this, so that they may believe that You sent Me." 

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And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, **"Lazarus, come forth."** 

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The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, **"Unbind him, and let him go."** 

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Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him. 

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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. 

## The Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus 

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Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together, and were saying, "What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs. 

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If we let Him _go on_ like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 

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But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 

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nor do you take into account that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." 

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Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 

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

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So from that day on they planned together to kill Him. 

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Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples. 

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Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the region before the Passover to purify themselves. 

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So they were seeking 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?" 

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Now the 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.