Jesus said to her,
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Martha said to him,
‘Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one sent into this world from God.’
After she said this, she went and called Mary her sister secretly, saying,
‘The Teacher is here and is looking for you.’
Mary got up quickly and went to Jesus. Jesus was not yet in Bethany but waiting at the same place that Martha had left Him.
The Jews who were consoling Mary and Martha in their home, saw Mary get up quickly and leave. They supposed that she was going to the tomb to weep and they followed her.
When Mary came to where Jesus was, she fell at His feet and said to Him,
‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’
Jesus saw her weeping, and he saw the Jews also who had come along with her weeping. He groaned in his spirit and was troubled and asked,
“Where have you laid him?”
They said to him,
‘Lord, come and see.’
Jesus wept.
The Jews who saw Jesus weeping said,
‘Look how he loved him!’
But others said,
‘If he could open the eyes of the blind, couldn’t he have prevented Lazarus from dying?’
After groaning, Jesus came up to the tomb that was in a cave with a stone lying against the opening.
Martha said,
‘Lord, the body is decayed since it has been dead for four days.’
Jesus said to her,
“Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
So at Jesus’ instruction they took away the stone from in front of the tomb.
Jesus lifted up his eyes and said,
“Father, I thank you that you hear me. I know you always hear me, but I want the people who are here to believe that you sent me.”
And then Jesus with a loud voice said,
“Lazarus come out.”
Lazarus came out of the tomb, his hands and feet were bound with grave-clothes, and his face was covered by a napkin. Jesus said to them,
“Unwrap him and let him go.”
Many of the Jews who had come to comfort Mary and her sister, Martha, saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead and believed in Him.
Others went out and told the Pharisees what Jesus had done.
