John 11

The Death of Lazarus

1 At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ‡ Jhn 12:17Luk 10:38-422Ki 20:1-12Jhn 11:11Jhn 12:9Mat 21:17Act 9:37Jhn 11:5-6 +52 (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet ¹with her hair.) ‡ Jhn 12:3Mat 26:6-7Mrk 14:3Luk 7:37-38 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.” ‡ Jhn 11:5Rev 3:19Heb 12:6-7Jhn 13:23Psa 16:32Ti 4:20Gen 22:2Jhn 11:11 +4

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.” ‡ Jhn 11:40Jhn 9:31Pe 4:14Jhn 5:23Jhn 17:51Pe 4:11Jhn 13:31-32Mrk 5:39-42 +10

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ‡ Jhn 15:9-13Jhn 11:36Jhn 17:26Jhn 16:27Jhn 11:8 6 So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days, ‡ Isa 30:18Isa 55:8-9Gen 22:14Gen 42:24Gen 43:29-31Gen 44:1-5Gen 45:1-5Mat 15:22-28 7 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” ‡ Act 20:22-24Act 15:36Jhn 10:40-42Luk 9:51

8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?” ‡ Jhn 10:31Jhn 8:59Act 21:12-13Mat 16:21-23Jhn 10:39Act 20:24Psa 11:1-3Mat 23:7

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. ‡ Jhn 9:4Jhn 12:35Jer 31:9Luk 13:31-33Pro 3:23 10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.” ‡ Pro 4:18-191Jn 2:10-11Jer 13:16Jer 20:11Ecc 2:14Psa 27:2

11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” ‡ Dan 12:2Jhn 11:131Th 5:10Jhn 11:43-44Mat 27:521Co 15:51Eph 5:14Exo 33:11 +14

12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.” 13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus. ‡ Mat 9:24

14 So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, ‡ Jhn 16:25Jhn 10:24Jhn 16:29 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ‡ 2Ti 2:10Jhn 14:10-111Jn 5:13Isa 54:15Jhn 11:35-36Jhn 11:42Co 4:15Isa 65:8 +6

16 Then Thomas called Didymus ²said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.” ‡ Jhn 13:37Luk 6:15Mat 10:3Mat 26:35Mrk 3:18Jhn 14:5Jhn 20:24-29Jhn 21:2 +3

Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary

17 When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb. ‡ Jhn 11:39Hos 6:2Act 2:27-31Jhn 2:19 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles ³away, ‡ Jhn 11:1Luk 24:13Rev 14:20Jhn 6:19Rev 21:16 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother. ‡ Job 2:111Th 5:11Jhn 11:312Co 1:41Th 4:18Job 42:11Rom 12:152Sa 10:2 +1020 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home. ‡ 1Th 4:17Luk 10:38-42Jhn 11:30Mat 25:1Act 10:25Act 28:15Mat 25:6

21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. ‡ Jhn 11:32Mat 9:181Ki 17:18Jhn 11:37Jhn 4:47-49Luk 7:6-10Luk 8:49-55Psa 78:19 +222 But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.” ‡ Jhn 9:31Jhn 11:41-42Mrk 9:23Mat 28:18Heb 11:17-19Jhn 5:22-27Jhn 17:2Jhn 3:35 +1

23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her. ‡ Jhn 11:43-44

24 Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” ‡ Dan 12:2-3Act 24:15Jhn 5:28-29Isa 26:19Act 17:31-32Hos 13:14Luk 14:14Psa 17:15 +7

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. ‡ 1Th 4:14Jhn 3:361Jn 5:11-12Jhn 1:4Rom 8:10-11Jhn 5:21Isa 26:19Rom 8:2 +3126 And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” ‡ Jhn 10:28Jhn 5:24Rom 8:131Jn 5:10-12Jhn 8:51-53Jhn 6:54-58Jhn 3:15-18Jhn 6:50-51 +6

27 “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.” ‡ Mat 16:16Jhn 6:14Jhn 6:69Mal 3:11Jn 5:11Jn 5:201Ti 1:15-16Luk 2:11 +7

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.” ‡ Jhn 13:131Th 4:17-18Jhn 11:20Jhn 20:16Mrk 10:49Jhn 1:41Jhn 1:45Jhn 10:3 +929 And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him. ‡ Psa 27:8Pro 15:23Psa 119:59-60Sng 3:1-4Pro 27:17

30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. ‡ Jhn 11:20 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. ‡ Jhn 11:192Sa 12:16-18Gen 37:351Co 2:15 32 When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” ‡ Jhn 11:21Luk 17:16Luk 5:8Luk 8:41Rev 22:8Rev 5:14Rev 5:8Jhn 11:37 +1

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit ⁴and troubled. ‡ Jhn 11:38Jhn 12:27Mrk 3:5Rom 12:15Gen 43:30-31Gen 45:1-5Heb 5:7-8Mrk 14:33-35 +334 “Where have you put him?” He asked. ‡ Mat 28:6Jhn 20:2Mrk 15:47Mrk 16:6Jhn 1:39

“Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

35 Jesus wept. ‡ Luk 19:41Heb 4:15Jhn 11:33Isa 53:3Jer 13:17Psa 119:136Job 30:25Heb 2:16-17 +8

36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!” ‡ Jhn 11:31Jn 3:11Jn 4:9-10Rev 1:5Eph 5:22Co 8:8-9Eph 5:25Jhn 14:21-23 +1

37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?” ‡ Jhn 9:6-7Jhn 11:32Luk 23:35Luk 23:39Mat 27:40-42Psa 78:19-20Jhn 11:21Mrk 15:32

Jesus Raises Lazarus

(Acts 9:36–43)

38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. ‡ Jhn 11:33Luk 24:2Mat 27:60Gen 23:19Isa 22:16Jhn 20:1Mrk 15:46Mrk 8:12 +439 “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. ‡ Jhn 11:17Psa 49:7Mrk 16:3Gen 3:19Php 3:21Gen 23:4Act 13:36Act 2:27 +2

“Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” ‡ Jhn 11:4Jhn 11:23-26Rom 4:17-25Psa 63:2Jhn 1:142Co 3:18Psa 90:162Ch 20:20 +3

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. ‡ Mat 11:25Jhn 17:1Psa 123:1Luk 10:21Php 4:6Jhn 12:28-30Luk 18:13 42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.” ‡ Jhn 3:17Jhn 17:211Jn 4:14Heb 7:251Jn 4:9-10Heb 5:7Jhn 11:22Jhn 17:25 +16

43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ‡ 2Ki 4:33-36Act 9:40Act 9:34Luk 7:14-151Ki 17:21-22Act 3:6Act 3:12Mrk 4:41

44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. ⁵ ‡ Jhn 5:25Jhn 20:7Jhn 11:25-26Jhn 5:21Luk 7:15Php 3:211Sa 2:6Act 20:9-12 +10

“Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

The Plot to Kill Jesus

(Matthew 26:1–5; Mark 14:1–2; Luke 22:1–2)

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him. ‡ Jhn 11:19Jhn 2:23Jhn 10:41Jhn 11:31Jhn 12:17-19Jhn 12:42Jhn 12:9-11Jhn 7:31 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ‡ Jhn 9:13Luk 16:30-31Act 5:25Jhn 12:37Jhn 5:15-16

47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin ⁶and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. ‡ Mat 26:3Act 4:16-17Act 4:5-6Jhn 11:57Jhn 12:19Jhn 2:11Mat 5:22Act 4:27-28 +648 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.” ‡ 1Th 2:15-16Act 5:28Dan 9:26-27Mat 23:35-38Mat 27:25Zec 14:1-2Deu 28:50-68Luk 11:52 +9

49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! ‡ Jhn 11:51Jhn 18:13-14Mat 26:3Pro 26:12Act 4:6Luk 3:21Co 1:201Co 2:6 +350 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” ‡ Jhn 18:14Luk 24:46Jhn 19:12Rom 3:8Jhn 11:48

51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation, ‡ 2Co 5:21Dan 9:261Sa 23:9Exo 28:30Gal 4:4-5Mat 20:281Co 13:21Sa 28:6 +1252 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one. ‡ Jhn 10:16Isa 49:61Jn 2:21Pe 1:1Eph 1:9-10Eph 2:14-22Rev 5:9Rom 9:25-26 +27

53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him. ‡ Act 5:33Act 9:23Jer 38:15Jer 38:4Jhn 11:47Jhn 12:10Mat 16:21Mat 22:46 +1054 As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples. ‡ Jhn 7:12Ch 13:19Jhn 7:42Sa 13:23Jhn 10:40Jhn 18:20Jhn 4:1-3Jhn 7:10 +1

55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover. ‡ 2Ch 30:17-20Heb 9:13-14Exo 19:10Gen 35:2Jhn 12:1Jhn 2:13Jhn 6:41Co 11:28 +1756 They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, ⁷ “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?” ‡ Jhn 7:11Jhn 11:7-8 57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him. ‡ Psa 109:4Jhn 10:39Jhn 5:16-18Jhn 8:59Jhn 9:22