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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So the sisters sent a message to Him: "Lord, the one You love is sick." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When Jesus heard it, He said, "This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then after that, He said to the disciples, "Let's go to Judea again."" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Rabbi," the disciples told Him, "just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You're going there again?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Aren't there 12 hours in a day?" Jesus answered. "If anyone walks during the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He said this, and then He told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on My way to wake him up." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then the disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Jesus then told them plainly, "Lazarus has died. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I'm glad for you that I wasn't there so that you may believe. But let's go to him." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Thomas (called "Twin") said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go so that we may die with Him." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away). |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn't have died. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Your brother will rise again," Jesus told her. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Martha said, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die--ever. Do you believe this?"" |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Yes, Lord," she told Him, "I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!" |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Where have you put him?" He asked." Lord," they told Him, "come and see." |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Jesus wept. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36So the Jews said, "See how He loved him!" |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37But some of them said, "Couldn't He who opened the blind man's eyes also have kept this man from dying?" |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Then Jesus, angry in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"Remove the stone," Jesus said. Martha, the dead man's sister, told Him, "Lord, he's already decaying. It's been four days." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You heard Me. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me." |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him and let him go." |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do since this man does many signs? |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation." |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all! |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50You're not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish." |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: "What do you think? He won't come to the festival, will He?" |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him. |
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