Now there was a certain man who was sick, Lazarus from  ¹Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

The sisters therefore sent to Him saying, Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.

But when Jesus heard it, He said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

When therefore He heard that he was sick, He remained at that time in the place where He was for two days.

Then after this He said to the disciples, Let us go into Judea again.

The disciples  ¹said to Him, Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and You are going there again?

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.

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

He said these things, and after this He said to them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him out of sleep.

The disciples then said to Him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will  ¹recover.

But Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

So Jesus then told them plainly, Lazarus has  ¹died.

And I rejoice for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.

Then Thomas, who is called  ¹Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him.

Then when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about  ¹fifteen stadia away.

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him; but Mary sat in the house.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.

Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again.

Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection  ¹in the last day.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live;

And everyone who lives and believes into Me shall by no means die forever. Do you believe this?

She said to Him, Yes, Lord; I have  ¹believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, He who comes into the world.

And when she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and  ¹is calling you.

And she, when she heard this, rose quickly and came to Him.

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.

The Jews then who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to  ¹weep there.

Then Mary, when she came to where Jesus was, saw Him and fell at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

Then Jesus, when He saw her  ¹weeping and the Jews who came with her  ¹weeping, was moved with indignation in His spirit and was troubled,

And He said, Where have you put him? They said to Him, Lord, come and see.

Jesus  ¹wept.

The Jews then said, Behold how He loved him!

But some of them said, Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man also have caused that this man would not die?

Jesus therefore, moved with indignation again in Himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was deceased, said to Him, Lord, by now he smells, for it is the fourth day that he is there.

Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?

Then they  ¹took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they may believe that You have  ¹sent Me.

And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with cloths, and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.

Many of the Jews therefore who had come to Mary and beheld the things that He did believed into Him.

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus did.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council and said, What do we do? For this man is doing many signs.

If we let Him do so, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all,

Nor do you take account of the fact that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people and that not the whole nation perish.

But this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,

And not for the nation only, but that He might also  ¹gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

From that day therefore they took counsel to kill Him.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there He remained with the disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.

They then sought Jesus, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That He will not, by any means, come to the feast?

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, so that they might arrest Him.

Then Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to  ¹Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Therefore they made Him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with Him.

Then Mary took a  ¹pound of ointment, of very valuable pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the  ²house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was about to betray Him, said,

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred  ¹denarii and given to the poor?

But he said this not because it mattered to him concerning the poor, but because he was a thief, and holding the purse, carried off what was put into it.

Then  ¹Jesus said, Leave her alone; she has reserved it for the day of My burial.

For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me.

Then a great crowd of the Jews found out that He was there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

And the chief priests took counsel to kill Lazarus also,

Because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed into Jesus.

On the next day, the great crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

Took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out,  ¹Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!

And Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it, as it is written,

“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt.”

These things His disciples did not understand at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him and that they had done these things to Him.

The crowd therefore that was with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead testified.

For this reason the crowd also went and met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.

The Pharisees then said to one another, You see that you are not doing anything worthwhile; behold, the world has gone after Him.

And there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

These then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we wish to see Jesus.

Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew came, and Philip too, and they told Jesus.

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be  ¹glorified.

Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat  ¹falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears  ²much fruit.

He who loves his  ¹soul-life loses it; and he who hates his soul-life in this world shall keep it unto  ²eternal life.

If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Now is My  ¹soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me out of this hour. But for  ²this reason I have come to this hour.

Father,  ¹glorify Your name. Then a voice came out of heaven: I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

The crowd therefore which stood by and heard it said that there had been thunder; others said, An angel has spoken to Him.

Jesus answered and said, This voice has not  ¹come for My sake, but for your sake.

Now is the  ¹judgment of this  ²world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.

And I, if I be  ¹lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.

But He said this signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.

The crowd therefore answered Him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides forever; and how is it that You say, The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?

Jesus then said to them, The light is still among you a little while. Walk while you have the light so that darkness may not overcome you; and he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

While you have the light, believe into the light, so that you may become sons of light.

Jesus said these things, and He went away and was hidden from them.

But though He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe into Him,

That the word of the prophet Isaiah which he said might be fulfilled, “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the  ¹arm of the Lord been revealed?”

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

“He has  ¹blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.”

These things said Isaiah because he saw  ¹His glory and spoke concerning Him.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

But Jesus  ¹cried out and said, He who believes into Me does not believe into Me, but into Him who sent Me;

And he who beholds Me beholds Him who sent Me.

I have come as a light into the world, that everyone who believes into Me would not remain in darkness.

And if anyone hears My  ¹words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

He who rejects Me and does not receive My words has one who judges him; the word which I have spoken, that will judge him in the last day.

For I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak.

And I know that His commandment is  ¹eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.