John 11:1-8 ▼

1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, |Lord, the one whom you love is ill.|

4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, |This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.|

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6 Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

7 After this, he told the disciples, |Let's go back to Judea.|

8 The disciples told him, |Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?|