John 11:17-44 ▼

17 Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having already been four days in the tomb.

18 And Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,

19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

20 Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus comes, met Him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

21 Martha, therefore, said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother had not died;

22 but even now, I have known that whatever You may ask of God, God will give to You”;

23 Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha says to Him, “I have known that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day”;

25 Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection, and the life; he who is believing in Me, even if he may die, will live;

26 and everyone who is living and believing in Me will not die—throughout the age;

27 do you believe this?” She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

28 And having said these things, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, “The Teacher is present, and calls you”;

29 she, when she heard, rises up quickly, and comes to Him;

30 and Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him;

31 the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying, “She goes away to the tomb, that she may weep there.”

32 Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother had not died”;

33 Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled Himself, and He said,

34 “Where have you laid him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see”;

35 Jesus wept.

36 The Jews, therefore, said, “Behold, how He was cherishing him!”

37 And certain of them said, “Was not this One, who opened the eyes of the blind man, also able to cause that this one might not have died?”

38 Jesus, therefore, again groaning in Himself, comes to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it,

39 Jesus says, “Take away the stone”; the sister of him who has died—Martha—says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks, for he is four days dead”;

40 Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you may believe, you will see the glory of God?”

41 Therefore they took away the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted His eyes upwards, and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me;

42 and I knew that You always hear Me, but because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that You sent Me.”

43 And saying these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

44 And he who died came forth, feet and hands being bound with grave-clothes, and his face was bound around with a napkin; Jesus says to them, “Loose him, and permit to go.”