John - Chapter 11

Passage

Now there was a certain man who was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, the town of Mary and of Martha her sister. (And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.) His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. And Jesus, hearing it, said to them: This sickness will not end in death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still stayed in the same place two days. Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea again. The disciples said to him: Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you. And are you going there again? 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: But if he walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend is sleeping: but I am going so that I may wake him out of sleep. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. But Jesus had spoken of his death: and they thought that he was speaking of the rest of sleep. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, so that we may die with him. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had already been in the grave four days. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs away.) And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you. Jesus said to her: Your brother shall rise again. Martha said to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: whoever believes in me, even if he dies, shall live: And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? She said to him: Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, who has come into this world. And when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master has come and is calling for you. She, as soon as she heard this, rose quickly and came to him. For Jesus had not yet come into the town: but he was still in the place where Martha had met him. The Jews therefore who were with her in the house comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying: She is going to the grave to weep there. When Mary therefore had come to where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet and said to him: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and was troubled, And said: Where have you laid him? They said to him: Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept. The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him. But some of them said: Could not he who opened the eyes of the man born blind have kept this man from dying? Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it. Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him: Lord, by this time there will be a smell, for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her: Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God? They took the stone away therefore. And Jesus, lifting up his eyes, said: Father, I give you thanks that you have heard me. And I knew that you always hear me: but I have said it because of the people who stand around, so that they may believe that you have sent me. When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. And at once he who had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with burial bands. And his face was bound around with a cloth. Jesus said to them: Untie him and let him go. Many therefore of the Jews who had come to Mary and Martha and had seen the things that Jesus did believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done. The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What are we doing? For this man does many miracles. If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come and take away our place and nation. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish. And this he did not say of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God who were scattered. From that day therefore they plotted to put him to death. Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews: but he went into a country near the desert, to a city called Ephrem. And there he stayed with his disciples. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus therefore; and they said to one another, standing in the temple: What do you think? Will he not come to the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given an order that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might seize him.