Christ raises Lazarus from the dead
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📚✭Now a certain man was sick. He was Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 📚✭It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.3 📚✭Therefore his sisters sent word to him, saying, “Lord, look, he whom you love is sick”.
4 📚✭When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God might be glorified”.✭
5 📚Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 📚✭So when he heard that he was sick, he remained two days more in the same place where he was.
7 📚✭Then after that he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again”.
8 📚His disciples said to him, “Teacher✭, lately the Jews tried to stone you, and will you go there again?”
9 📚✭Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 📚But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light around him”.
11 📚He said these things, and afterwards he said to them, “Our friend✭ Lazarus is asleep✭. But I will go to awaken him from sleep”.
12 ✭Then his disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better”.
13 📚However, Jesus spoke of his death. But they thought that he spoke of resting in sleep.
14 📚✭Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 📚✭And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him”.
16 📚Then Thomas✭, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him”. 17 📚✭When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 📚Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about three kilometers away. 19 📚✭And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother. 20 📚✭Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary still sat in the house.
21 📚✭Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 📚✭But I know that even now whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you”.
23 📚Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again”.
24 📚Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day”.
25 📚✭Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he dies, yet he will live. 26 📚✭And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 📚She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ✭, the Son of God✭, who should come into the world”.
28 📚And when she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you”.
29 📚As soon as she heard this, she quickly got up and went to him. 30 📚✭Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha had met him. 31 📚Then the Jews who had been with her in the house comforting her, when they saw Mary getting up quickly and going out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there”.
32 📚✭Then when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell prostrate at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died”.
33 📚✭So when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he groaned in spirit and was troubled, 34 📚✭and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see”.
35 📚✭Jesus wept.
36 📚Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 📚✭And some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”
38 📚✭Then Jesus, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 📚✭Jesus said, “Take away the stone”. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be a bad smell, for he has been dead four days”.
40 📚✭Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?”
41 📚Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was lying. And Jesus raised his eyes✭, and said, “Father, I thank you✭ that you have heard me.✭ 42 📚✭And I know that you always hear me, but because of the people standing here I said this, that they may believe that you have sent me”.
43 📚✭And when he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 📚✭And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and with his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him,✭ and let him go”.
Religious leaders plot to kill Christ
45 📚✭Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him. 46 📚✭But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 📚Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the council✭, and said, “What shall we do? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 48 📚✭If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation”.
49 📚✭And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 📚✭and do not consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish”.
51 📚✭And this he did not say on his own, but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for that nation, 52 📚and not only for that nation, but also that he would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 📚✭Then, from that day on, they plotted to put him to death.
54 📚✭Therefore Jesus no more went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and remained there with his disciples.
55 📚And the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56 📚✭Then they looked for Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Will he not come to the feast?”
57 📚Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could seize him.