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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2(This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world's light. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Martha answered, "I know 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 will live, even though they die; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Jesus wept. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me." |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus 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] | 47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many signs. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation." |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all! |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish." |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53So from that day on they plotted to take his life. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he coming to the festival at all?" |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him. |
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