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The Death of Lazarus

¹There was a man named Lazarus who was sick. He lived in the town of Bethany, where Mary and her sister Martha lived. ²(Mary is the same woman who put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) Mary's brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick. ³So Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, "Lord, your dear friend Lazarus is sick."
⁴When Jesus heard this he said, "The end of this sickness will not be death. No, this sickness is for the glorya of God. This has happened to bring glory to the Son of God." ⁵Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days ⁷and then said to his followers, "We should go back to Judea."
⁸They answered, "But Teacher, those Jews there tried to stone you to death. That was only a short time ago. Now you want to go back there?"
⁹Jesus answered, "There are twelve hours of light in the day. Whoever walks in the day will not stumble and fall because they can see with the light from the sunb. ¹⁰But whoever walks at night will stumble because there is no light."
¹¹Then Jesus said, "Our friend Lazarus is now sleeping, but I am going there to wake him."
¹²The followers answered, "But, Lord, if he can sleep, he will get well." ¹³They thought Jesus meant that Lazarus was literally sleeping, but he really meant that Lazarus was dead.
¹⁴So then Jesus said plainly, "Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵And I am glad I was not there. I am happy for you because now you will believe in me. We will go to him now."
¹⁶Then Thomas, the one called "Twin," said to the other followers, "We will go too. We will die there with Jesus."

Jesus in Bethany ¹⁷Jesus arrived in Bethany and found that Lazarus had already been dead and in the tombc for four days. ¹⁸Bethany was about two milesd from Jerusalem. ¹⁹Many Jews had come to see Martha and Mary. They came to comfort them about their brother Lazarus.
²⁰When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to greet him. But Mary stayed home. ²¹Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²But I know that even now God will give you anything you ask."
²³Jesus said, "Your brother will rise and be alive again."
²⁴Martha answered, "I know that he will rise to live again at the time of the resurrectione on the last day."
²⁵Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection. I am life. Everyone who believes in me will have life, even if they die. ²⁶And everyone who lives and believes in me will never really die. Martha, do you believe this?"
²⁷Martha answered, "Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Messiahf, the Son of God. You are the one who was coming to the world."

Jesus Cries ²⁸After Martha said these things, she went back to her sister Mary. She talked to Mary alone and said, "The Teacher is here. He is asking for you." ²⁹When Mary heard this, she stood up and went quickly to Jesus. ³⁰He had not yet come into the village. He was still at the place where Martha met him. ³¹The Jews who were in the house comforting Mary saw her get up and leave quickly. They thought she was going to the tombc to cry there. So they followed her. ³²Mary went to the place where Jesus was. When she saw him, she bowed at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
³³When Jesus saw Mary crying and the people with her crying too, he was very upset and deeply troubled. ³⁴He asked, "Where did you put him?"
They said, "Lord, come and see."
³⁵Jesus cried.
³⁶And the Jews said, "Look! He loved Lazarus very much!"
³⁷But some of them said, "Jesus healed the eyes of the blind man. Why didn't he help Lazarus and stop him from dying?"

Jesus Raises Lazarus From Death ³⁸Again feeling very upset, Jesus came to the tombc. It was a cave with a large stone covering the entrance. ³⁹He said, "Move the stone away."
Martha said, "But, Lord, it has been four days since Lazarus died. There will be a bad smell." Martha was the sister of the dead man.
⁴⁰Then Jesus said to her, "Remember what I told you? I said that if you believed, you would see God's divine greatnessg."
⁴¹So they moved the stone away from the entrance. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you heard me. ⁴²I know that you always hear me. But I said these things because of the people here around me. I want them to believe that you sent me." ⁴³After Jesus said this he called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴The dead man came out. His hands and feet were wrapped with pieces of cloth. He had a handkerchief covering his face.
Jesus said to the people, "Take off the cloth and let him go."

The Jewish Leaders Plan to Kill Jesus(Mt. 26:1-5; Mk. 14:1-2; Lk. 22:1-2) ⁴⁵There were many Jews who came to visit Mary. When they saw what Jesus did, many of them believed in him. ⁴⁶But some of them went to the Phariseesh and told them what Jesus did. ⁴⁷Then the leading priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the high council. They said, "What should we do? This man is doing many miraculous signsi. ⁴⁸If we let him continue doing these things, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come and take away our Templej and our nation."
⁴⁹One of the men there was Caiaphas. He was the high priestk that year. He said, "You people know nothing! ⁵⁰It is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed. But you don't realize this."
⁵¹Caiaphas did not think of this himself. As that year's high priest, he was really prophesyingl that Jesus would die for the Jewish people. ⁵²Yes, he would die for the Jewish people. But he would also die for God's other children scattered all over the world. He would die to bring them all together and make them one people.
⁵³That day the Jewish leaders began planning to kill Jesus. ⁵⁴So Jesus stopped traveling around openly among the Jews. He went away to a town called Ephraim in an area near the desert. He stayed there with his followers.
⁵⁵It was almost time for the Jewish Passoverm festival. Many people from the country went to Jerusalem before the Passover. They went to do the special things to make themselves pure for the festival. ⁵⁶The people looked for Jesus. They stood in the Temple area and asked each other, "Is he coming to the festival? What do you think?" ⁵⁷But the leading priests and the Pharisees had given a special order about Jesus. They said that anyone who knew where he was must tell them so that they could arrest him.

^aglory A word that refers to the special qualities of God. Often it means brightness, referring to the way he appears to people. Sometimes it means majesty or power, referring to a kind of greatness that cannot be compared to anything in human experience. It can also include the ideas of wealth, honor, fame, or respect, especially in expressions of praise.
^b11:9 from the sun Literally, “of this world.”
^ctomb A grave dug in a wall of rock or a building where a dead body is buried. It can also be a small building made to show respect for important people who had died.
^d11:18 two miles Literally, “15 stadia,” almost 3 km.
^eresurrection Being raised from death to live again.
^fMessiah A Hebrew word that has the same meaning as the Greek word Christ (see “Christ”). It was a title for the kings of God’s people in the Old Testament and for the special king God promised to send as a “savior” to defeat evil and establish the reign of God. Many prophets made it clear that this new kingdom would be eternal; that is, not only would the promised Messiah bring about a time of justice and right living among God’s people here on earth, but also his kingdom would extend beyond this world to life forever with God. However, most Jews of the first century expected the Messiah to be a political ruler here on earth who would defeat the other nations and return the nation of Israel to a position of great glory and power. But God intended his Messiah to establish a new “Israel,” an eternal kingdom that would bless all the nations.
^gdivine greatness Literally, “glory,” a word that refers to the special qualities of God. See “glory.”
^hPharisee A person who belonged to a Jewish religious group that claimed to follow carefully all Jewish laws and customs.
ⁱmiraculous sign An amazing act that demonstrates the power of God.
^jTemple The permanent building in Jerusalem that replaced the portable “Holy Tent” that was used by the Israelites from the time of their wandering in the desert to the reign of King Solomon, when the first Temple was built. Like the Holy Tent, the Temple was the center of Israelite worship, although provision was made for it to be “a house of prayer for all nations” (Isa. 56:7).
^khigh priest The most important priest and leader of the Israelites or the Jews, God’s people under the “old agreement.” Under the “new agreement” the high priest for God’s people is Jesus Christ. Read Heb. 7:11-8:13.
^lprophesy To speak or teach things from God.
^mPassover A very important holy day for the people of Israel and their descendants. They ate a special meal on this day every year to remember that God made them free from slavery in Egypt in the time of Moses. The name may come from the word in Ex. 12:13, 23, 27 that means “to pass over” or “to protect.”