John 11
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The Death of Lazarus
1#Mt 21:17Now a man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2#Jn 12:3; Mk 14:3This was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3#Jn 11:5; 11:36So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he whom You love is sick.”
4#Jn 9:3; 11:40When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” 5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6So when He heard that he was sick, He remained where He was two more days. 7Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
8#Jn 10:31; 8:59His disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone You. Are You going there again?”
9#Jn 9:4; 12:35Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10#Jer 13:16But if anyone walks during the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11#Da 12:2; Ac 7:60After He said this, He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going that I may awaken him from sleep.”
12Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will be well.” 13Jesus had spoken of his death. But they thought that He was speaking of getting rest through sleep.
14So then Jesus plainly told them, “Lazarus is dead. 15And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
16#Mt 10:3; Jn 21:2Then Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, that we may die with Him.”
Jesus the Resurrection and the Life
17#Jn 11:39When Jesus arrived, He found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, less than two miles away.#Gk. 15 stadia, or about 3 kilometers. 19#Job 2:11; Jn 11:31Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. 20#Lk 10:38–42When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met Him, but Mary remained in the house.
21#Jn 11:32; 11:37Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22#Jn 9:31; 11:41–42But even now I know that whatever You may ask of God, God will give You.”
23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24#Jn 5:28–29; Ac 24:15Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25#Jn 1:4; 1Th 4:14Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, yet shall he live. 26And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27#Mt 16:16; Jn 6:14She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Jesus Weeps
28#Jn 13:13; Mt 26:18When she had said this, she went her way and secretly called her sister Mary, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.” 29When she heard this, she rose quickly and went to Him. 30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him. 31#Jn 11:19When the Jews who were with Mary in the house, comforting her, saw that she quickly rose up and went out, they followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32#Jn 11:21When Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33#Jn 11:38; 12:27When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35#Lk 19:41; Jn 11:33Jesus wept.
36#Jn 11:3Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him.”
37#Jn 9:6–7But some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also kept this man from dying?”
Lazarus Brought to Life
38#Mt 27:60; Jn 11:33Then Jesus, again groaning within Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39#Jn 11:17Jesus 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.”
40#Jn 11:4; 11:23–26Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41#Jn 17:1; Mt 11:25So 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 have heard Me. 42#Jn 3:17; 17:21I know that You always hear Me. But because of the people standing around, I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
43When He had said this, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44#Jn 20:7; 19:40He who was dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped with grave clothes, and his face wrapped with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
Mt 26:1–5; Mk 14:1–2; Lk 22:1–2
45#Jn 2:23; 11:19Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him. 46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47#Mt 26:3; 5:22Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrin and said, “What shall we do? This Man is performing many signs. 48If we leave Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49#Mt 26:3; Jn 11:51Then one of them named Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50#Jn 18:14nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, that the whole nation should not perish.”
51#Ex 28:30; 1Sa 23:9He did not say this on his own authority. But being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52#Jn 10:16; Isa 49:6and not for the nation only, but that He might also gather together in unity the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53So from that day forward they planned to put Him to death.
54#Jn 7:1; 2Ch 13:19Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and remained there with His disciples.
55#Jn 2:13; 6:4Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. 56#Jn 7:11Then they searched for Jesus and said among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do you think, that He will not come to the feast?” 57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, that they might seize Him.
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John 11
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Lazarus Dies at Bethany
1Now a man was sick —Lazarus from Bethany,#Mk 11:1 the village of Mary and her sister Martha.#Lk 10:38–42 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair,#Lk 7:38; Jn 12:3 and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. 3So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,#Lk 9:32; Jn 9:3; 10:38; 11:40; 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18 so that the Son of God#Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 may be glorified through it.” 5Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was. 7Then after that, he said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea#Lk 1:5 again.”
8“Rabbi,”#Mt 23:7–8; 26:25,49; Mk 9:5; 11:21; 14:45; Jn 1:38,49; 3:2,26; 4:31; 6:25; 9:2 the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you,#Jn 10:31 and you’re going there again?”
9 “Aren’t there twelve hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.#Mt 5:14; Jn 8:12 10But if anyone walks during the night,#Jn 9:4 he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”
11He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep,#Ac 13:36; 1Co 11:30 but I’m on my way to wake him up.”
12Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
13Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep. 14So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died. 15I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”
16Then Thomas#Mk 3:18 (called “Twin”#11:16 Gk Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too so that we may die with him.”
The Resurrection and the Life
17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb#Jn 5:28 four days. 18Bethany was near Jerusalem#Mt 23:37 (less than two miles#11:18 Lit fifteen stadia; one stadion = 600 feet away). 19Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
23 “Your brother will rise #
Mk 9:27
again,” Jesus told her.
24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”#Jn 2:4; 6:39; 1Pt 1:5; 3:3; 2Pt 3:3; Jd 18
25Jesus said to her, “I am#Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me,#Jn 6:35 even if he dies, will live.#Php 1:21 26Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.#Jn 6:50; 8:51 Do you believe this?”
27“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah,#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 the Son#Jn 5:19 of God, who comes into the world.”#Jn 18:37
Jesus Shares the Sorrow of Death
28Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.#Mk 1:45 30Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb#Jn 5:28 to cry there.
32As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet#Rv 19:10 and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”
33When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved#11:33 Or angry, also in v. 38 in his spirit#Ps 51:12 and troubled. 34“Where have you put him?” he asked.
“Lord,” they told him, “come and see.”
35Jesus wept.#Lk 19:41
36So the Jews said, “See how he loved#Mk 14:44; Jn 5:20 him!” 37But some of them said, “Couldn’t he who opened the blind man’s eyes#Jn 9:6–7 also have kept this man from dying?”
The Seventh Sign: Raising Lazarus from the Dead
38Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.#Mt 27:60; Mk 15:46; Lk 24:2; Jn 20:1 39“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.
Martha, the dead man’s sister, told him, “Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days.”
40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory#Jn 17:24 of God?” #Mk 9:23; 1Jn 3:2
41So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank#Mk 8:6; Rm 1:8 you that you heard me.#Jn 9:31 42I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent#Mk 9:37; Jn 1:6 me.” 43After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.#Jn 2:23; 12:11 46But some of them went to the Pharisees#Mk 7:3 and told them what Jesus had done.
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin#Mk 13:9 and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs? 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans#Ac 16:21 will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49One of them, Caiaphas,#Mt 26:3,57; Lk 3:2; Jn 18:13–14,24,28; Ac 4:6 who was high priest#Lv 16:32 that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50You’re not considering that it is to your#11:50 Other mss read to our advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”#Is 53:8; Jn 18:14 51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die#2Co 4:10 for the nation, 52and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children#Lk 1:7 of God. 53So from that day on they plotted to kill him.#Jn 5:18
54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly#Jn 7:1 among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness,#Mt 3:1; Rv 12:6 to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.
55Now the Jewish Passover#Ex 12:11 was near, and many went up to Jerusalem#Mt 23:37 from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 56They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple,#Ac 21:26 “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival,#Jn 2:23 will he?” 57The chief priests#Mt 2:4 and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him.
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