John 11
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Jesus Brings Lazarus Back to Life
1Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived, was sick. 2(Mary was the woman who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was sick.)
3So the sisters sent a messenger to tell Jesus, “Lord, your close friend is sick.”
4When Jesus heard the message, he said, “His sickness won’t result in death. Instead, this sickness will bring glory to God so that the Son of God will receive glory through it.”
5Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6Yet, when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.
7Then, after the two days, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
8The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, not long ago the Jews wanted to stone you to death. Do you really want to go back there?”
9Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day don’t stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10However, those who walk at night stumble because they have no light in themselves.”
11After Jesus said this, he told his disciples, “Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, and I’m going to Bethany to wake him.”
12His disciples said to him, “Lord, if he’s sleeping, he’ll get well.”
13Jesus meant that Lazarus was dead, but the disciples thought Jesus meant that Lazarus was only sleeping. 14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15but I’m glad that I wasn’t there so that you can grow in faith. Let’s go to Lazarus.”
16Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, “Let’s go so that we, too, can die with Jesus.”
17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. 18(Bethany was near Jerusalem, not quite two miles away.) 19Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. Mary stayed at home. 21Martha told 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 him.”
23Jesus told Martha, “Your brother will come back to life.”
24Martha answered Jesus, “I know that he’ll come back to life on the last day, when everyone will come back to life.”
25Jesus said to her, “I am the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die. 26Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?”
27Martha said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was expected to come into the world.”
28After Martha had said this, she went back home and whispered to her sister Mary, “The teacher is here, and he is calling for you.”
29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Jesus. 30(Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still where Martha had met him.) 31The Jews who were comforting Mary in the house saw her get up quickly and leave. So they followed her. They thought that she was going to the tomb to cry. 32When Mary arrived where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who were crying with her, he was deeply moved and troubled.
34So Jesus asked, “Where did you put Lazarus?”
They answered him, “Lord, come and see.”
35Jesus cried. 36The Jews said, “See how much Jesus loved him.” 37But some of the Jews asked, “Couldn’t this man who gave a blind man sight keep Lazarus from dying?”
38Deeply moved again, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone covering the entrance. 39Jesus said, “Take the stone away.”
Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Jesus, “Lord, there must already be a stench. He’s been dead for four days.”
40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see God’s glory?” 41So the stone was moved away from the entrance of the tomb.
Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. 42I’ve known that you always hear me. However, I’ve said this so that the crowd standing around me will believe that you sent me.” 43After Jesus had said this, he shouted as loudly as he could, “Lazarus, come out!”
44The dead man came out. Strips of cloth were wound around his feet and hands, and his face was wrapped with a handkerchief. Jesus told them, “Free Lazarus, and let him go.”
The Jewish Council Plans to Kill Jesus
45Many Jews who had visited Mary and had seen what Jesus had done believed in him. 46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council. They asked, “What are we doing? This man is performing a lot of miracles. 48If we let him continue what he’s doing, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will take away our position and our nation.”
49One of them, Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year, told them, “You people don’t know anything. 50You haven’t even considered this: It is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
51Caiaphas didn’t say this on his own. As chief priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation. 52He prophesied that Jesus wouldn’t die merely for this nation, but that Jesus would die to bring God’s scattered children together and make them one.
53From that day on, the Jewish council planned to kill Jesus. 54So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he left Bethany and went to the countryside near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55The Jewish Passover was near. Many people came from the countryside to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover. 56As they stood in the temple courtyard, they looked for Jesus and asked each other, “Do you think that he’ll avoid coming to the festival?” 57(The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where Jesus was should tell them so that they could arrest him.)
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John 11
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The Death of Lazarus
1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of #Luke 10:38, 39; John 11:5, 19Mary and her sister Martha. 2#Matt. 26:7It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
4When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6So, when He heard that he was sick, #John 10:40He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to #John 8:59; 10:31stone You, and are You going there again?”
9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? #Luke 13:33; John 9:4; 12:35If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the #Is. 9:2light of this world. 10But #John 12:35if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus #Deut. 31:16; (Dan. 12:2); Matt. 9:24; Acts 7:60; (1 Cor. 15:18, 51)sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”
12Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.” 13However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
14Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
16Then #Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; John 14:5; 20:26–28; Acts 1:13Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
I Am the Resurrection and the Life
17So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. 19And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 21Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But even now I know that #(John 9:31; 11:41)whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24Martha said to Him, #(Luke 14:14; John 5:29)“I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25Jesus said to her, “I am #John 5:21; 6:39, 40, 44; (Rev. 1:18)the resurrection and the life. #John 3:16, 36; 1 John 5:10He who believes in Me, though he may #1 Cor. 15:22; (Heb. 9:27)die, he shall live. 26And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, #Matt. 16:16; Luke 2:11; John 4:42; 6:14, 69I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Jesus and Death, the Last Enemy
28And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.” 29As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him. 30Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met Him. 31#John 11:19, 33Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she #Mark 5:22; 7:25; Rev. 1:17fell down at His feet, saying to Him, #John 11:21“Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34And He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35#Luke 19:41Jesus wept. 36Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37And some of them said, “Could not this Man, #John 9:6, 7who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”
Lazarus Raised from the Dead
38Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a #Matt. 27:60, 66; Mark 15:46; Luke 24:2; John 20:1stone lay against it. 39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
40Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would #(John 11:4, 23)see the glory of God?” 41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42And I know that You always hear Me, but #John 12:30; 17:21because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with #John 19:40graveclothes, and #John 20:7his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, #John 2:23; 10:42; 12:11, 18and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. 46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and #John 5:15told them the things Jesus did. 47#Ps. 2:2; Matt. 26:3; Mark 14:1; Luke 22:2Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, #John 12:19; Acts 4:16“What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
49And one of them, #Matt. 26:3; Luke 3:2; John 18:14; Acts 4:6Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50#John 18:14nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52and #Is. 49:6; Acts 10:45; 11:18; 13:46; (1 John 2:2)not for that nation only, but #Ps. 22:27; John 10:16; (Eph. 2:14–17)also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53Then, from that day on, they plotted to #Matt. 26:4; Luke 6:11; 19:47; 22:2; John 5:16put Him to death. 54#John 4:1, 3; 7:1Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called #2 Chr. 13:19Ephraim, and there remained with His disciples.
55#Matt. 26:1; Mark 14:1; Luke 22:1; John 2:13; 5:1; 6:4And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to #Num. 9:10, 13; 31:19, 20; 2 Chr. 30:17; Luke 2:22purify themselves. 56#John 7:11Then they sought Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that He will not come to the feast?” 57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, that they might #Matt. 26:14–16seize Him.
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