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If one walks during the day,<a id="ren50011009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011009-d">d</a> he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.<a id="ren50011009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011009-e">e</a> <span id="v50011010" class="ver">10</span>But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”<a id="rfn50011010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011010-1">*</a> <span id="v50011011" class="ver">11</span>He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.” <span id="v50011012" class="ver">12</span>So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” <span id="v50011013" class="ver">13</span>But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.<a id="ren50011013-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011013-f">f</a> <span id="v50011014" class="ver">14</span>So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died. <span id="v50011015" class="ver">15</span>And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” <span id="v50011016" class="ver">16</span>So Thomas, called Didymus,<a id="rfn50011016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011016-1">*</a> said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.”<a id="ren50011016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011016-g">g</a></p> <p><span id="v50011017" class="ver">17</span>When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. <span id="v50011018" class="ver">18</span>Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles<a id="rfn50011018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011018-1">*</a> away. <span id="v50011019" class="ver">19</span>And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.<a id="ren50011019-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011019-h">h</a> <span id="v50011020" class="ver">20</span>When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. <span id="v50011021" class="ver">21</span>Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.<a id="ren50011021-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011021-i">i</a> <span id="v50011022" class="ver">22</span>[But] even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” <span id="v50011023" class="ver">23</span>Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” <span id="v50011024" class="ver">24</span>Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.”<a id="ren50011024-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011024-j">j</a> <span id="v50011025" class="ver">25</span>Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,<a id="ren50011025-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011025-k">k</a> <span id="v50011026" class="ver">26</span>and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” <span id="v50011027" class="ver">27</span><a id="rfn50011027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011027-1">*</a> <a id="ren50011027-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011027-l">l</a> She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”</p> <p><span id="v50011028" class="ver">28</span>When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, “The teacher is here and is asking for you.” <span id="v50011029" class="ver">29</span>As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. <span id="v50011030" class="ver">30</span>For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. <span id="v50011031" class="ver">31</span>So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. <span id="v50011032" class="ver">32</span>When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” <span id="v50011033" class="ver">33</span>When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed<a id="rfn50011033-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011033-1">*</a> and deeply troubled, <span id="v50011034" class="ver">34</span>and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” <span id="v50011035" class="ver">35</span>And Jesus wept.<a id="ren50011035-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011035-m">m</a> <span id="v50011036" class="ver">36</span>So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” <span id="v50011037" class="ver">37</span>But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”</p> <p><span id="v50011038" class="ver">38</span>So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. <span id="v50011039" class="ver">39</span>Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.” <span id="v50011040" class="ver">40</span>Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” <span id="v50011041" class="ver">41</span>So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father,<a id="rfn50011041-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011041-1">*</a> I thank you for hearing me. <span id="v50011042" class="ver">42</span>I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”<a id="ren50011042-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011042-n">n</a> <span id="v50011043" class="ver">43</span>And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice,<a id="rfn50011043-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011043-1">*</a> “Lazarus, come out!” <span id="v50011044" class="ver">44</span>The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Session of the Sanhedrin.</span> <span id="v50011045" class="ver">45</span>Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.<a id="ren50011045-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011045-o">o</a> <span id="v50011046" class="ver">46</span>But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. <span id="v50011047" class="ver">47</span>So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.<a id="ren50011047-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011047-p">p</a> <span id="v50011048" class="ver">48</span>If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come<a id="rfn50011048-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011048-1">*</a> and take away both our land and our nation.” <span id="v50011049" class="ver">49</span><a id="ren50011049-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011049-q">q</a> But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,<a id="rfn50011049-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011049-1">*</a> said to them, “You know nothing, <span id="v50011050" class="ver">50</span>nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” <span id="v50011051" class="ver">51</span>He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, <span id="v50011052" class="ver">52</span>and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.<a id="rfn50011052-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011052-1">*</a> <span id="v50011053" class="ver">53</span>So from that day on they planned to kill him.<a id="ren50011053-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011053-r">r</a></p> <p><span id="v50011054" class="ver">54</span>So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim,<a id="rfn50011054-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011054-1">*</a> and there he remained with his disciples.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Last Passover.</span> <span id="v50011055" class="ver">55</span>Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify<a id="rfn50011055-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn50011055-1">*</a> themselves.<a id="ren50011055-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en50011055-s">s</a> <span id="v50011056" class="ver">56</span>They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” <span id="v50011057" class="ver">57</span>For the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should inform them, so that they might arrest him.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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