VIN(i)
1 Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha—
2 The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 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 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13 Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,
14 So then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead;
15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 "Master," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 And I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask Him for.”
23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha exclaimed: "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
26 And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
27 “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28 After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29 And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "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 also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34 “Where have you laid him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days."
40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing by, that they may believe that you sent me."
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with grave clothes, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs.
48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews; but went away from there to a region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.
55 It was the Jewish Passover. Many went out of the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 So they were looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they were saying to each other, “What do you think—that he won’t come to the feast at all?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.