| 17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had joined the women who were with Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” 23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live. 26No one who lives and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe this?” 27She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” 28After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29When Mary heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. 30(Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha had met him.) 31When the Jews who were in the house with Mary, consoling her, saw her rise quickly and go out, they followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.” 32When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. 34He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35Jesus wept. 36So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have also kept this man from dying?” 38Deeply moved once more, Jesus came to the tomb. (It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.) 39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the man who had died, said to him, “Lord, there is already a stench, for it is the fourth day.” 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 from where the dead man was laid. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I know that you always hear me, but I say this for the benefit of the crowd that is standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” 43After saying this, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44Then the man who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” |
