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Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. ( </span><span class="v43_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.2" class="v43_11_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.11.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.) </span><span class="v43_11_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.3" class="v43_11_3">3</span>The sisters sent Jesus a message: “Lord, your dear friend is sick.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.4" class="v43_11_4">4</span>When Jesus heard it, he said, “The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.5" class="v43_11_5">5</span>Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. </span><span class="v43_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.6" class="v43_11_6">6</span>Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days. </span><span class="v43_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.7" class="v43_11_7">7</span>Then he said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.8" class="v43_11_8">8</span>“Teacher,” the disciples answered, “just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you; and are you planning to go back?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.9" class="v43_11_9">9</span>Jesus said, “A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world. </span><span class="v43_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.10" class="v43_11_10">10</span>But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light.” </span><span class="v43_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.11" class="v43_11_11">11</span>Jesus said this and then added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.12" class="v43_11_12">12</span>The disciples answered, “If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.13" class="v43_11_13">13</span>Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep. </span><span class="v43_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.14" class="v43_11_14">14</span>So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, </span><span class="v43_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.15" class="v43_11_15">15</span>but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.16" class="v43_11_16">16</span>Thomas (called the Twin) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us all go along with the Teacher, so that we may die with him!”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus the Resurrection and the Life</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.17" class="v43_11_17">17</span>When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before. </span><span class="v43_11_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.18" class="v43_11_18">18</span>Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, </span><span class="v43_11_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.19" class="v43_11_19">19</span>and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother's death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.20" class="v43_11_20">20</span>When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house. </span><span class="v43_11_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.21" class="v43_11_21">21</span>Martha said to Jesus, “If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died! </span><span class="v43_11_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.22" class="v43_11_22">22</span>But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.23" class="v43_11_23">23</span>“Your brother will rise to life,” Jesus told her.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.24" class="v43_11_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.11.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “I know,” she replied, “that he will rise to life on the last day.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.25" class="v43_11_25">25</span>Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die; </span><span class="v43_11_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.26" class="v43_11_26">26</span>and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.27" class="v43_11_27">27</span>“Yes, Lord!” she answered. “I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Weeps</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.28" class="v43_11_28">28</span>After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. “The Teacher is here,” she told her, “and is asking for you.” </span><span class="v43_11_29"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.29" class="v43_11_29">29</span>When Mary heard this, she got up and hurried out to meet him. ( </span><span class="v43_11_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.30" class="v43_11_30">30</span>Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.) </span><span class="v43_11_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.31" class="v43_11_31">31</span>The people who were in the house with Mary comforting her followed her when they saw her get up and hurry out. They thought that she was going to the grave to weep there.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.32" class="v43_11_32">32</span>Mary arrived where Jesus was, and as soon as she saw him, she fell at his feet. “Lord,” she said, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.33" class="v43_11_33">33</span>Jesus saw her weeping, and he saw how the people with her were weeping also; his heart was touched, and he was deeply moved. </span><span class="v43_11_34"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.34" class="v43_11_34">34</span>“Where have you buried him?” he asked them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_34">“Come and see, Lord,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_35"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.35" class="v43_11_35">35</span>Jesus wept. </span><span class="v43_11_36"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.36" class="v43_11_36">36</span>“See how much he loved him!” the people said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_37"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.37" class="v43_11_37">37</span>But some of them said, “He gave sight to the blind man, didn't he? Could he not have kept Lazarus from dying?”</span></p><h3 class="s">Lazarus Is Brought to Life</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_38"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.38" class="v43_11_38">38</span>Deeply moved once more, Jesus went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone placed at the entrance. </span><span class="v43_11_39"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.39" class="v43_11_39">39</span>“Take the stone away!” Jesus ordered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_39">Martha, the dead man's sister, answered, “There will be a bad smell, Lord. He has been buried four days!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_40"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.40" class="v43_11_40">40</span>Jesus said to her, “Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?” </span><span class="v43_11_41"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.41" class="v43_11_41">41</span>They took the stone away. Jesus looked up and said, “I thank you, Father, that you listen to me. </span><span class="v43_11_42"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.42" class="v43_11_42">42</span>I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me.” </span><span class="v43_11_43"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.43" class="v43_11_43">43</span>After he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” </span><span class="v43_11_44"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.44" class="v43_11_44">44</span>He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave cloths, and with a cloth around his face. “Untie him,” Jesus told them, “and let him go.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Plot against Jesus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 26:1-5">Matthew 26.1-5</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 14:1">Mark 14.1</ref>,<ref loc="MRK 14:2">2</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 22:1">Luke 22.1</ref>,<ref loc="LUK 22:2">2</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_45"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.45" class="v43_11_45">45</span>Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did, and they believed in him. </span><span class="v43_11_46"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.46" class="v43_11_46">46</span>But some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. </span><span class="v43_11_47"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.47" class="v43_11_47">47</span>So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing! </span><span class="v43_11_48"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.48" class="v43_11_48">48</span>If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_49"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.49" class="v43_11_49">49</span>One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, “What fools you are! </span><span class="v43_11_50"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.50" class="v43_11_50">50</span>Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” </span><span class="v43_11_51"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.51" class="v43_11_51">51</span>Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people, </span><span class="v43_11_52"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.52" class="v43_11_52">52</span>and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_53"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.53" class="v43_11_53">53</span>From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus. </span><span class="v43_11_54"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.54" class="v43_11_54">54</span>So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_11_55"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.55" class="v43_11_55">55</span>The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival. </span><span class="v43_11_56"><span class="reftext" id="John.11.56" class="v43_11_56">56</span>They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the Temple, they asked one another, “What do you think? 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