Lazarus of Bethany

Jesus waits two days, arrives four days late, and weeps at his friend's tomb. He tells Martha he is the resurrection and the life, thanks his Father out loud for hearing him, and calls Lazarus out. That is when the council decides to kill him.

Chapter 11.

A man named Lazarus was sick, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary—whose brother Lazarus was sick—anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and dried his feet with her hair. So the sisters sent word to him, saying, "Lord, the one you love is sick."

Hearing this, Jesus said, "This sickness won't end in death, but is for the glory of our Father, so the Son of our Father may be glorified through it."

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard Lazarus was sick, he stayed two more days where he was.

Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews just now tried to stone you, and you're going back there?"

Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours in the day? Anyone who walks by day won't stumble - he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him." After this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm going to wake him."

So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought he meant natural sleep.

So then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died, I'm glad for your sake I wasn't there, so you'll believe. But let's go to him."

So Thomas, called the Twin, told the other disciples, "Let's go too, and die with him."

So when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, ^a and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; Mary stayed sitting in the house. Martha 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 our Father, he will give you."

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

Martha said to him, "I know he'll rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe you are the Christ, the Son of our Father, the one coming into the world."

After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately: "The Teacher is here—he's calling for you." When Mary heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still where Martha met him. The Jews with her in the house, comforting her, saw Mary rise quickly and leave; they followed, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep there. Mary came to Jesus, saw him, fell at his feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he groaned in spirit and was troubled.

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

Jesus wept.

So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could this man who opened the blind man's eyes not have kept him from dying?"

So Jesus, again deeply moved in himself, came to the tomb—a cave with a stone against it.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, "Lord, he must smell by now—he's been dead four days."

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you: if you believe you'll see our Father's glory?"

So they removed the stone. Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you heard me. I knew you always hear me, but I said this for the crowd standing here, so they may believe you sent me." When he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

The dead man came out, feet and hands bound with strips of linen, and his face wrapped in cloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him; let him go."

The Council Gathers

So many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and Pharisees convened the council and said, "What are we doing? For this man performs many signs. If we leave him alone, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

But one of them, Caiaphas, high priest that year, told them, "You know nothing at all. Don't you see it's better for you that one man die for the people than the whole nation perish?" He didn't say this on his own; as high priest that year, he prophesied Jesus would die for the nation, not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the scattered children of our Father. ^b So from that day on they plotted to put him to death. So Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews, but withdrew to a town called Ephraim near the wilderness, and stayed there with his disciples.

The Jews' Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before it to purify themselves. So they looked for Jesus, asking each other as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the feast?" The chief priests and Pharisees had ordered that anyone who knew his whereabouts must report it, so they could arrest him.

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John 11

Lazarus of Bethany

The Council Gathers

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