John 11:1-16:33 THERE was a certain man sick — Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ THERE was a certain man sick — Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister. ² It was that Mary who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick. ³ So the sisters sent to Jesus, saying, "Master, he whom you love is sick." ⁴ When Jesus heard it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it." ⁵ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed where he was two days. ⁷ Then, after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judaea again." ⁸ The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" ⁹ Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him." ¹¹ He said this, and then he said to them, "Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him." ¹² The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." ¹³ But Jesus had spoken of his death. They thought that he was speaking of the repose of sleep. ¹⁴ Then Jesus said to them frankly, "Lazarus has died, ¹⁵ and I am glad on your account that I was not there — so that you may believe. But let us go to him." ¹⁶ Thomas, who is called Didymus (the Twin), said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too to die with him." ¹⁷ When Jesus came he found that Lazarus had been already four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, ¹⁹ and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them regarding their brother. ²⁰ When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him. Mary was sitting in the house. ²¹ Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here my brother would not have died. ²² And now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you." ²³ Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." ²⁴ Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection on the last day." ²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe this?" ²⁷ She said to him, "Yes, Master. I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." ²⁸ Having said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying to her privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you." ²⁹ She, when she heard it, rose quickly and went to meet him. ³⁰ Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. ³¹ The Jews who were with Mary in the house trying to comfort her, seeing her rise quickly and go out, followed thinking that she was going to the tomb to wail there. ³² When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master, if you had been here my brother would not have died." ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was indignant in spirit and disturbed, ³⁴ and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Master, come and see." ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ The Jews said, "See, how he loved him!" ³⁷ Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have prevented this man from dying?" ³⁸ Jesus, again indignant, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying on the entrance. ³⁹ Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Master, he is already offensive, for he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee for hearing me. ⁴² I know that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd that stand around I say it, that they may believe that thou didst send me." ⁴³ After saying this he called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." ⁴⁴ Forth came the dead man, swathed feet and hands in grave-clothes and his face bound up in a handkerchief. Jesus said, "Loose him and let him go." ⁴⁵ Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation." ⁴⁹ One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything ⁵⁰ nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction." ⁵¹ He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide. ⁵³ From that day they plotted to kill him. ⁵⁴ So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples. ⁵⁵ The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" ⁵⁷ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him. ¹² ¹ SIX days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom he had raised from the dead. ² There they made a dinner for him. Martha waited on them, and Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him. ³ Mary took a pound of pure nard perfume, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ⁴ Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was going to betray him, said, ⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for three hundred shillings and the money given to the poor?" ⁶ He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and having the purse used to pilfer what was put into it. ⁷ Jesus said, "Let her alone. It was hers to keep for the day of my preparation for the tomb. ⁸ The poor you always have with you, but me you have not. ⁹ A great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not on account of Jesus alone, but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ The high priests planned to kill Lazarus too, ¹¹ because many of the Jews on account of him went and believed in Jesus. ¹² On the next day the great crowd which had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "God save him! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the King of Israel!" ¹⁴ Jesus, finding a young ass, sat on it, as it is written, ¹⁵ "Fear not, daughter of Zion! Behold, your King comes, sitting on the foal of an ass!" ¹⁶ These things his disciples did not understand at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him. ¹⁷ The people that were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead were bearing witness to it. ¹⁸ For this reason the crowd went to meet him, because they had heard that he had done this sign. ¹⁹ The Pharisees said among themselves, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone off after him." ²⁰ There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast. ²¹ These came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." ²² Philip came and told Andrew. Andrew came with Philip and they told Jesus. ²³ Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies it bears much fruit. ²⁵ He who loves his life destroys it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for life eternal. ²⁶ If any one is serving me, let him follow me and where I am there my servant shall be. If any one is serving me, him my Father will honor. ²⁷ Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this I have come to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" There came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it and will again glorify it." ²⁹ The crowd that was standing there and heard said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel spoke to him." ³⁰ Jesus said, "This voice came, not on my account, but for you. ³¹ Now is the judgment of this world. Now the Ruler of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me." ³³ This he said indicating by what death he was to die. ³⁴ The crowd answered him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" ³⁵ Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so as to become sons of Light." Jesus said these things and then went away and hid himself from them. ³⁷ But, though he had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him, ³⁸ so that the word of Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled. Isaiah said, "Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" ³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them." ⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and he spoke of him. ⁴² Nevertheless, even of the rulers many did believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. ⁴⁴ Jesus cried out, "He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me, ⁴⁵ and he who looks upon me looks upon him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come as a Light into the world that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ If any one hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge. The message that I have spoken — that will judge him on the last day. ⁴⁹ But he who sent me — the Father himself — has given me a command what I am to say and what I am to speak, ⁵⁰ and I know that his command is life eternal. So what I am speaking I am speaking just as the Father has told me." ¹³ ¹ BEFORE the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that the hour had come for him to pass from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world loved them to the end. ² During supper, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God, ⁴ rose from supper and laid aside his upper garments and took a towel and put it around him. ⁵ Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel he had around him. ⁶ He came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, "Master, are you washing my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now; but you will know hereafter." ⁸ Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." ⁹ Simon Peter said to him, "Master, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed has no need to be washed, except his feet, but is all clean. And you are clean, though not all." ¹¹ For he knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "You are not all clean." ¹² When he had washed their feet and had taken his upper garments and lain down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am. ¹⁴ If then I, the Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I tell you, the servant is not superior to his master nor the messenger superior to him who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you — if you do them. ¹⁸ I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who is eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' ¹⁹ I am now telling you before it occurs that when it does occur you may believe that I am he. ²⁰ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who receives any one whom I send receives me. He who receives me receives him who sent me." ²¹ After saying these things Jesus was disturbed in spirit and solemnly said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me." ²² The disciples looked at one another wondering whom he meant. ²³ One of his disciples was leaning on Jesus' breast — the one Jesus loved. ²⁴ Simon Peter nodded to him and said, "Say who it is that he is speaking of." ²⁵ He, leaning back on the breast of Jesus, said to him, "Master, who is it?" ²⁶ Jesus answered, "I will dip a piece of bread and give it to one. That is the man." When he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ After the piece of bread Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are doing do quickly." ²⁸ No one of those reclining at the table understood why he said this to him. ²⁹ Some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or to give something to the poor. ³⁰ After taking the morsel Judas immediately went out. It was night. ³¹ When Judas had gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him. ³² If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and immediately will glorify him. ³³ Children, yet a little while I am with you. You will look for me and, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so I say now to you. ³⁴ A new command I give you, to love one another, as I have loved you — that so you love one another. ³⁵ By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love to one another." ³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now; but you will follow me later." ³⁷ Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." ³⁸ Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I tell you, the cock will not crow before you have disowned me three times." ¹⁴ ¹ "LET not your heart be troubled. Believe in God and believe in me. ² In my Father's house are many abiding places. If it were not so I would have told you. ³ For I am going to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. ⁴ And to where I am going you know the way." ⁵ Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you had known me you would have known my Father also. But now you know him and have seen him." ⁸ Philip said to him, "Master, show us the Father and we shall be satisfied." ⁹ Jesus said, "Have I been so much time with you and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself. The Father abides in me and does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me. But if not, believe on account of the works themselves. ¹² Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes in me — the works that I am doing he also will do and greater works than these he will do, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ Whatever you ask in my name that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ "If you love me, you will keep my commands, ¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — ¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. ¹⁹ After a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I am living you too will live. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. ²¹ He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him." ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Master, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him. ²⁴ He who loves me not does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine, but is the word of the Father who sent me. ²⁵ "These things I have spoken to you while yet with you. ²⁶ The Counselor — the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name — will teach you all things and remind you of all that I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor fearful. ²⁸ You heard that I said to you I am going away and am coming back to you. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ Now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass you may believe. ³⁰ I shall no longer speak much with you, for the Ruler of this world is coming and he has no part in me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, even as the Father commanded me, so I am doing. Rise, let us go hence." ¹⁵ ¹ "I AM the true Vine and my Father is the Vine-grower. ² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him — he bears much fruit; but without me you cannot do anything. ⁶ If any one does not abide in me, he is cast out like a branch and withers, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you. ⁸ By this is my Father glorified — by your bearing much fruit and becoming my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made complete. ¹² This is my command — to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I call you friends, for all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. ¹⁷ These things I am commanding you that you may love one another. ¹⁸ "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world the world would love its own. But you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. For this reason the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, 'The servant is not superior to his Master.' If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But in order that the saying written in their Law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.' ²⁶ "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth who goes forth from the Father — he will witness concerning me. ²⁷ And you are witnesses because you have been with me from the beginning." ¹⁶ ¹ "THESE things I have spoken to you that you may not stumble and fall. ² They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when every one who kills you will think that he is offering a sacrifice to God. ³ These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴ But these things I have told you in order that when their hour comes you may remember them — that I told you. These things I did not tell you from the beginning because I was with you. ⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, and no one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' ⁶ but, because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your hearts. ⁷ I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I should go away. For unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And he, when he comes, will convince the world regarding sin and regarding righteousness and regarding judgment — ⁹ regarding sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer see me; ¹¹ regarding judgment, because the Ruler of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still many things to tell you; but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when he comes — the Spirit of Truth — he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak his own thoughts, but all that he hears he will speak and he will announce to you the things to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because he will take of mine and will announce it to you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine. For that reason I say, 'He will take of mine and announce it to you.' ¹⁶ After a little while you will no longer see me, and again a little while and you will see me." ¹⁷ Some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?" ¹⁸ So they said, "What is this that he says, 'A little while'? We do not know what he means." ¹⁹ Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you discussing with one another about this that I said, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'? ²⁰ Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will change into joy. ²¹ A woman when she is bringing forth has grief because her hour has come. But when she has borne the child, she no longer remembers her anguish for the joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² And you have grief now, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ²³ On that day you will ask me no questions. Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴ So far you have asked for nothing in my name; ask and you will obtain, that your joy may be made full. ²⁵ "I have spoken these things to you in figures. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will make request of the Father for you, ²⁷ for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from the Father's presence. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father." ²⁹ His disciples said, "See, now you are speaking plainly and are using no figures. ³⁰ Now we know that you know all things and that you have no need to have any one question you. From this we believe that you have come forth from God." ³¹ Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? ³² Indeed the hour is coming — it has come — for each one of you to be scattered to his own and leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."