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got word that Jesus was coming, she went
to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
21 Martha said to J
esus, “Lord, if only you had
been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that God will give you
whatever you ask.”
23
Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise
again.”
24 “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when
everyone else rises, at the last day.”
25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and
the life.* Anyone who believes in me will live,
even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me
and believes in me will never ever die. Do you
believe this, Martha?”
27 “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.” 28 Then she returned to Mary. She called
Mary aside from the mourners and told her,
“The Teacher is here and wants to see you.”
29 So Mary immediately went to him.
30 Jesus had stayed outside the village, at
the place where Martha met him. 31 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. 32 When Mary arrived and
saw J esus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord,
if only you had been here, my brother would
not have died.”
33 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. 34 “Where have you put him?” he
asked them.
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Then
Jesus wept. 36 The people who were
standing nearby said, “See how much he
loved him!” 37 But some said, “This man
healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept
Lazarus from dying?”
38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the
tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its
entrance. 39 “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.”
40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that
you would see God’s glory if you believe?”
41 So they rolled the stone aside. Then J
esus
looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank
you for hearing me. 42 You always hear me,
but I said it out loud for the sake of all these
people standing here, so that they will believe
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you sent me.” 43 Then Jesus shouted, “Laza
rus, come out!” 44And 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
45 Many of the people who were with Mary
believed in Jesus when they saw this happen. 46 But some went to the Pharisees and
told them what Jesus had done. 47 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. 48 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.”
49 Ca
iaphas, who was high priest at that
time,* said, “You don’t know what you’re
talking about! 50 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.”
51 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. 52 And
not only for that nation, but to bring together
and unite all the children of God scattered
around the world.
53 So from that time on, the Jewish leaders
began to plot J esus’ death. 54As a result, J esus
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.
55 It was now almost time for the Jew
ish
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. 56 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?” 57 Meanwhile, the leading priests and Pharisees had
publicly ordered that anyone seeing Jesus
must report it immediately so they could
arrest him.
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the
home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from
the dead. 2 A dinner was prepared in Jesus’
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1 1:25 Some manuscripts do not include and the life.
11:33 Or he was angry in his spirit.
11:47 Greek the Sanhedrin.
11:48 Or
our position; Greek reads our place.
11:49 Greek that year; also in 11:51.
