King James Version

1 There was a certain man sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha, her sister. 2 And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick." 4 And Jesus heard and said, "This illness is not unto death, but 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 When he heard that he was sick, then he stayed in the place where he was for two days. 7 Then after this, he says to the disciples: "Let us go into Judea again." 8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?" 9 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." 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him. 11 These things he said, and after this he says to them: Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him. 12 The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be saved." 13 And Jesus had spoken about his death. But they thought that he was talking about the sleep of rest. 14 Then Jesus said to them openly, "Lazarus has died." 15 And I rejoice because of you, that you may believe, that I was not there; but let us go to him. 16 Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." 17 So Jesus, having come, found him already four days in the tomb. 18 But Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him; but Mary was sitting in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 22 And now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise." 24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live." 26 And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever; do you believe this? 27 He says to him: Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world. 28 And having said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling you." 29 But she, when she heard it, rose quickly and went to him. 30 But Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house and comforting her, seeing that Mary quickly rose and went out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 So Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 33 Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and troubled himself. 34 And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, "Look how he loved him." 37 But some of them said, "Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept this man from dying?" 38 Jesus, therefore, again groaning within himself, comes to the tomb; now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus says, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, says to him, "Lord, already he smells, for he has been dead four days." 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" 41 They lifted the stone. Jesus lifted his eyes up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me." 42 But I knew that you always hear me; but because of the crowd standing around, I said this, so that they may believe that you sent me. 43 And when he said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." 44 The dead man came out bound hand and foot with burial cloths, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and let him go.” 45 Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come to Mary and had seen what He did, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and they said, "What are we to do, for this man performs many signs?" 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything." 50 And you do not consider that it is advantageous for you that one man should die for the people and not the whole nation perish. 51 This he did not say of himself, but being high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 And not only for the nation, but also that he might gather into one the scattered children of God. 53 From that day on, they plotted to kill him. 54 Therefore, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples. 55 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the countryside before the Passover to purify themselves. 56 Therefore they were seeking Jesus and were saying to one another standing in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" 57 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gave orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might seize him.