1THERE was a certain man sick \'97 Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister. 2It was that Mary who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3So the sisters sent to Jesus, saying, "Master, he whom you love is sick." 4When Jesus heard it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it." 5Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed where he was two days. 7Then, after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judaea again." 8The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" 9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. 10But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him." 11He said this, and then he said to them, "Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him." 12The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." 13But Jesus had spoken of his death. They thought that he was speaking of the repose of sleep. 14Then Jesus said to them frankly, "Lazarus has died, 15and I am glad on your account that I was not there \'97 so that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16Thomas, who is called Didymus , said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too to die with him." 17When Jesus came he found that Lazarus had been already four days in the tomb. 18Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them regarding their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him. Mary was sitting in the house. 21Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here my brother would not have died. 22And now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you." 23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection on the last day." 25Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live, 26and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe this?" 27She said to him, "Yes, Master. I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." 28Having said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying to her privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you." 29She, when she heard it, rose quickly and went to meet him. 30Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31The Jews who were with Mary in the house trying to comfort her, seeing her rise quickly and go out, followed thinking that she was going to the tomb to wail there. 32When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master, if you had been here my brother would not have died." 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was indignant in spirit and disturbed, 34and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Master, come and see." 35Jesus wept. 36The Jews said, "See, how he loved him!" 37Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have prevented this man from dying?" 38Jesus, again indignant, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying on the entrance. 39Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Master, he is already offensive, for he has been dead four days." 40Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" 41So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee for hearing me. 42I know that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd that stand around I say it, that they may believe that thou didst send me." 43After saying this he called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." 44Forth came the dead man, swathed feet and hands in grave-clothes and his face bound up in a handkerchief. Jesus said, "Loose him and let him go." 45Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him. 46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. 48If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation." 49One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything 50nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction." 51He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide. 53From that day they plotted to kill him. 54So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples. 55The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. 56They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" 57The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.