John 11
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Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister
Martha.
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And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with
her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
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But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory
of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
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Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
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When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place
where he was.
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Then after this he says to the disciples, Let us go into Judea again.
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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you; and go
you there again?
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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he
stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.
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But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
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These things spoke he: and after this he says to them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen
asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
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The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover.
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Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in
sleep.
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Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
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And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe;
nevertheless let us go to him.
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Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow-disciples, Let us also
go, that we may die with him.
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So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
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Now Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
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and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their
brother.
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Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary
still sat in the house.
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Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.
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And even now I know that, whatever you shall ask of God, God will give you.
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Jesus says to her, Your brother shall rise again.
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Martha says to him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
day.
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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he who believes on me, though
he die, yet shall he live;
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and whoever lives and believes on me shall never die. Believe you this?
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She says to him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
[even] he who comes into the world.
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And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying,
The Teacher is her, and calls" you.
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And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went to him.
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(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha
met him.)
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The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw
Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was
going to the tomb to weep there.
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Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet,
saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.
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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews [also] weeping who came with her,
he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
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and said, Where have you laid him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.
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Jesus wept.
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The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
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But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him whom was blind,
have caused that this man also should not die?
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Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and
a stone lay against it.
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Jesus says, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him whom was dead, says
to him, Lord, by this time the body decays; for he has been [dead] four days.
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Jesus says to her, Said I not to you, that, if you believed, you should see the glory
of God?
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So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank
you that you heard me.
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And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the multitude that stands around
I said it, that they may believe that you did send me.
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And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
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He who was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was
bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let him go.
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Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed
on him.
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But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus
had done.
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The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do
we? for this man does many signs.
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If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and
take away both our place and our nation.
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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You
know nothing at all,
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nor do you take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that
Jesus should die for the nation;
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and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children
of God that are scattered abroad.
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So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the
country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with
the disciples.
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Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the
country before the passover, to purify themselves.
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They sought therefore for Jesus, and spoke one with another, as they stood in the
temple, What think you? That he will not come to the feast?
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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew
where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.