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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 11 NLT ESV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/john/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/john/">John</a> > John 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/10.shtml" title="John 10">◄</a> John 11 <a href="../john/12.shtml" title="John 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NLT Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/john/11.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/john/11.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/john/11.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/john/11.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/john/11.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/john/11.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/john/11.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/john/11.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/john/11.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/john/11.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/john/11.shtml">GRK]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New Living Translation</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">he stayed where he was for the next two days.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But his disciples objected. “Rabbi,” they said, “only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thomas, nicknamed the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go, too—and die with Jesus.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Bethany was only a few miles down the road from Jerusalem,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Mary immediately went to him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “Where have you put him?” he asked them. They told him, “Lord, come and see.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Jesus wept.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus wept.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!” The Plot to Kill Jesus<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw this happen.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high council together. “What are we going to do?” they asked each other. “This man certainly performs many miraculous signs.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If we allow him to go on like this, soon everyone will believe in him. Then the Roman army will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Caiaphas, who was high priest at that time, said, “You don’t know what you’re talking about!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They kept looking for Jesus, but as they stood around in the Temple, they said to each other, “What do you think? He won’t come for Passover, will he?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Meanwhile, the leading priests and Pharisees had publicly ordered that anyone seeing Jesus must report it immediately so they could arrest him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/11-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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