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The Raising of Lazarus
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”
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.”
So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
he stayed where he was for the next two days.
So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.
Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?”
Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.
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.
But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light.”
“But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”
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.”
The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!”
The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep.
So he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”
and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.”
Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.
So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off;
and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss.
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house.
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.”
“Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
“Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”
Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.”
She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world.”
Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.”
When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
So Mary immediately went to him.
And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to Him.
Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.
When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there.
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled,
“Where have you put him?” he asked them.
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!”
So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!”
But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?”
Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
“Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?”
Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me.
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”
“I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”
And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw this happen.
Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.
But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
Conspiracy to Kill Jesus
Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.
“If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.
Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.
and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.
So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.
As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.
Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.
It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began.
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
They kept looking for Jesus, but as they stood around in the Temple, they said to each other, “What do you think? He won’t come for Passover, will he?”
So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?”