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    John 11

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    Lazarus comes out of the tomb alive but still dressed for the grave, so the first instruction after the miracle is to unwrap him and let him go.

    The delay, and the journey backvv. 1–16

    Lazarus is sick in Bethany, and his sisters send word to Jesus with the tenderly indirect message that “the one You love” is ill. Jesus answers that the sickness will not end in death, then stays where He is for two days—a delay made especially striking by the narrator’s insistence that Jesus loved all three siblings. When He finally proposes returning to Judea, the disciples remember the stones waiting there. Lazarus, meanwhile, has fallen asleep, or rather died; Jesus has to explain the distinction plainly. Thomas, with admirable gloom, suggests that they go and die with Him.

    The tomb, and the unwrappingvv. 17–44

    By the time Jesus arrives, Lazarus has spent four days in the tomb. Martha meets Jesus outside the village while Mary remains at home, and both sisters say the same thing: had He been there, Lazarus would not have died. Martha nevertheless declares her belief, and Mary soon comes weeping, followed by the mourners who suppose she is going to the tomb. Jesus is deeply moved, asks where Lazarus has been put, and weeps. At the cave, Martha objects to the stone being removed on grounds of smell—a briskly physical interruption to the glory of God. The stone is taken away, Jesus calls, and Lazarus emerges still bound hand and foot, his face wrapped in cloth. The miracle’s immediate housekeeping is therefore: unwrap the man and let him go.

    A sign, a council, and a plotvv. 45–57

    Many of the mourners believe after seeing what Jesus has done; others report it to the Pharisees. The chief priests and Pharisees convene the Sanhedrin, where Caiaphas dismisses them as knowing nothing and argues that one man should die rather than the nation perish. The narrator then gives the sentence a second life: Caiaphas was prophesying, though he did not say it on his own. The council’s political calculation thus becomes an unwitting prophecy, and from that very day they plot to kill Jesus. Jesus withdraws to Ephraim with the disciples, while Passover draws people towards Jerusalem and the authorities order that anyone who knows where He is must report it.

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    1. John 11:1At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

    2. John 11:2(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

    3. John 11:3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

    4. John 11:4When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

    5. John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

    6. John 11:6So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

    7. John 11:7and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

    8. John 11:8“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

    9. John 11:9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

    10. John 11:10But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

    11. John 11:11After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

    12. John 11:12His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”

    13. John 11:13They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

    14. John 11:14So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

    15. John 11:15and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

    16. John 11:16Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

    17. John 11:17When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.

    18. John 11:18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,

    19. John 11:19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.

    20. John 11:20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

    21. John 11:21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

    22. John 11:22But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”

    23. John 11:23“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

    24. John 11:24Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

    25. John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

    26. John 11:26And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

    27. John 11:27“Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

    28. John 11:28After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

    29. John 11:29And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

    30. John 11:30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

    31. John 11:31When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

    32. John 11:32When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

    33. John 11:33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

    34. John 11:34“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

    35. John 11:35Jesus wept.

    36. John 11:36Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

    37. John 11:37But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

    38. John 11:38Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

    39. John 11:39“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

    40. John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

    41. John 11:41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

    42. John 11:42I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

    43. John 11:43After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

    44. John 11:44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

    45. John 11:45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.

    46. John 11:46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

    47. John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

    48. John 11:48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

    49. John 11:49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

    50. John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

    51. John 11:51Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

    52. John 11:52and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

    53. John 11:53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

    54. John 11:54As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

    55. John 11:55Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

    56. John 11:56They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

    57. John 11:57But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

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    • 251 Thessalonians 4:14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
    • 25John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
    • 251 John 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
    • 25John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
    • 25Romans 8:10–11But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
    • 25Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
    • 40John 11:4When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
    • 40John 11:23–26“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
    • 40Romans 4:17–25As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
    • 35Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
    • 25Philippians 3:20–21But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
    • 25Job 19:25–27But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
    • 35Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
    • 4John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
    • 4John 9:3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
    • 40Psalms 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

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