1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the sisters sent [word] to Him, saying, |Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.|
4 But when Jesus heard [this], He said, |This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.|
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days [longer] in the place where He was.
7 Then after this He said to the disciples, |Let us go to Judea again.|
8 The disciples said to Him, |Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?|
9 Jesus answered, |Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 |But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.|
11 This He said, and after that He said to them, |Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.|
12 The disciples then said to Him, |Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.|
13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep.
14 So Jesus then said to them plainly, |Lazarus is dead,
15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.|
16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to [his] fellow disciples, |Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.|
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off;
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning [their] brother.
20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house.
21 Martha then said to Jesus, |Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
