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          DASV: John 11    

1 Now a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of
Mary and her sister Martha, was sick.
2 It was Mary, who had anointed the Lord with perfume, and
wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, "Lord, he whom
you love is sick."
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not
to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God
may be glorified by it."
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus.
6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two
days in the place where he was.

7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go to back
to Judea."
8 But the disciples objected, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying
to stone you; and you want to go back there again?"
9 Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If
anyone walks in the day, he won't stumble, because he sees
the light of this world.
10 But if someone walks in the night, he will stumble, because
the light is not in him."
11 After saying these things he told them, "Our friend Lazarus
has fallen asleep; but I go, that I may wake him up."
12 Then the disciples responded, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep,
he will recover."
13 Now Jesus had spoken about his death; but they thought that
he meant just normal sleep.
14 Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.
15 But I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that
you may believe. But let's go to him."
16 Thomas, called Didymus [meaning Twin], said to his fellow
disciples, "Let's go too, so that we may die with him."

17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been
in the tomb four days.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, less than two miles away.
19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console
them over the loss of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him.
But Mary remained sitting in the house.
21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother
would not have died.
22 But even now I know that, whatever you ask from God, God will
give it to you."
23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha replied, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection
at the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever
believes in me will live even if he dies.
26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?"
27 She replied, "Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Messiah,
the Son of God, the one coming into the world."

28 After she said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister
secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is asking for you."
29 When she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the
place where Martha had met him.
31 The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were
consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out,
followed her, assuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 Mary therefore, when she came to where Jesus was and saw him,
fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here,
my brother would not have died."
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also
weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and disturbed.
34 He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come
and see."
35 Jesus wept.
36 So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes
of the blind man, have kept this man from dying?"

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. Now it was a
cave, and a stone was set across its entrance.
39 Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of him who
was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be a stench
because he has been dead for four days."
40 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you, that if you believed,
you would see the glory of God?"
41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and
prayed, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always listen to me; but I said it because of
the crowd that stands here, that they may believe that you have
sent me."
43 After he said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out."
44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with grave
clothes; and his face was wrapped with a headcloth. Jesus told
them, "Loose him, and let him go."
45 So many of the Jews, who had come to Mary and saw what he did,
believed in him.

46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what
Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council,
and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many
miraculous signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him.
Then the Romans will come and take away both our holy place and
our nation."
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said
to them, "You don't know anything.
50 You don't realize that it is better for you that one man
should die for the people, than that the whole nation should
be destroyed."
51 Now he said this not from himself; but, being high priest
that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather
together into one the children of God scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they plotted how they might put him
to death.

54 As a result Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews,
but departed from there into the country near the wilderness,
to a town called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up
from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to
purify themselves.
56 They were looking for Jesus, and spoke to each other, as
they stood in the temple area, saying, "What do you think? He
won't come to the feast, will he?
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders,
that if anyone knew where he was, they should inform them,
so that they might arrest him.

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