John 11

Jesus Delays His Arrival John 11:8–16

⁸Verse 8. The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹Verse 9. Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰Verse 10. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” ¹¹Verse 11. He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” ¹²Verse 12. The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Verse 13. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴Verse 14. So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵Verse 15. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.” ¹⁶Verse 16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

Martha and Jesus Discuss Faith John 11:17–27

¹⁷Verse 17. So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. ¹⁸Verse 18. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. ¹⁹Verse 19. Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. ²⁰Verse 20. Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. ²¹Verse 21. Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. ²²Verse 22. Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

²³Verse 23. Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ²⁴Verse 24. Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” ²⁵Verse 25. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. ²⁶Verse 26. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷Verse 27. She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

Mary's Grief and Jesus' Response John 11:28–36

²⁸Verse 28. When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.” ²⁹Verse 29. When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him. ³⁰Verse 30. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. ³¹Verse 31. Then the Jews 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, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.” ³²Verse 32. Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

³³Verse 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, ³⁴Verse 34. and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵Verse 35. Jesus wept. ³⁶Verse 36. The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

Lazarus Raised from the Dead John 11:37–44

³⁷Verse 37. Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”³⁸Verse 38. Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.³⁹Verse 39. Jesus said,“Take away the stone.”Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”⁴⁰Verse 40. Jesus said to her,“Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”⁴¹Verse 41. So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said,“Father, I thank you that you listened to me.⁴²Verse 42. I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”⁴³Verse 43. When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”⁴⁴Verse 44. He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.Jesus said to them,“Free him, and let him go.”

Reactions and Consequences John 11:45–57

⁴⁵Verse 45. Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. ⁴⁶Verse 46. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. ⁴⁷Verse 47. The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. ⁴⁸Verse 48. If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” ⁴⁹Verse 49. But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

⁵⁰Verse 50. nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹Verse 51. Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ⁵²Verse 52. and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³Verse 53. So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. ⁵⁴Verse 54. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

⁵⁵Verse 55. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. ⁵⁶Verse 56. Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” ⁵⁷Verse 57. Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.