John 11

1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.Cross-references: Gen 48:1 · 2Ki 20:1 · Matt 21:17 · Mark 11:1 · Luke 10:38 · Luke 16:20 · +7 more

2It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.Cross-references: Matt 26:6 · Mark 14:3 · Luke 7:37 · John 12:3

3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”Cross-references: Gen 22:2 · Ps 16:3 · John 11:1 · John 11:5 · John 11:11 · John 11:36 · +6 more

4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”Cross-references: Mark 5:39 · John 2:11 · John 5:23 · John 8:54 · John 9:3 · John 9:24 · +12 more

5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.Cross-references: John 11:8 · John 11:36 · John 15:9 · John 16:27 · John 17:26

6When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · Gen 42:24 · Gen 43:29 · Gen 44:1 · Gen 45:1 · Isa 30:18 · +2 more

7Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”Cross-references: Luke 9:51 · John 10:40 · Acts 15:36 · Acts 20:22

8The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”Cross-references: Ps 11:1 · Matt 16:21 · Matt 23:7 · John 8:59 · John 10:31 · John 10:39 · +2 more

9Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.Cross-references: Prov 3:23 · Jer 31:9 · Luke 13:31 · John 9:4 · John 12:35

10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”Cross-references: Ps 27:2 · Prov 4:18 · Eccl 2:14 · Jer 13:16 · Jer 20:11 · 1John 2:10

11He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”Cross-references: Ex 33:11 · Deut 31:16 · 2Chr 20:7 · Isa 41:8 · Dan 12:2 · Matt 9:24 · +16 more

12The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.Cross-references: Matt 9:24

14So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.Cross-references: John 10:24 · John 16:25 · John 16:29

15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”Cross-references: Gen 26:24 · Gen 39:5 · Ps 105:14 · Isa 54:15 · Isa 65:8 · John 2:11 · +8 more

16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”Cross-references: Matt 10:3 · Matt 26:35 · Mark 3:18 · Luke 6:15 · Luke 22:33 · John 11:8 · +5 more

17So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.Cross-references: Hos 6:2 · John 2:19 · John 11:39 · Acts 2:27

18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.Cross-references: Luke 24:13 · John 6:19 · John 11:1 · Rev 14:20 · Rev 21:16

19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.Cross-references: Gen 37:35 · 2Sam 10:2 · 1Chr 7:21 · Job 2:11 · Job 42:11 · Eccl 7:2 · +12 more

20Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.Cross-references: Matt 25:1 · Matt 25:6 · Luke 10:38 · John 11:30 · Acts 10:25 · Acts 28:15 · +1 more

21Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:18 · Ps 78:19 · Ps 78:41 · Matt 9:18 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 7:13 · +4 more

22Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Matt 28:18 · Mark 9:23 · John 3:35 · John 5:22 · John 9:31 · +3 more

23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”Cross-references: John 11:43

24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”Cross-references: Ps 17:15 · Ps 49:14 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 26:19 · Ezek 37:1 · Dan 12:2 · +9 more

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.Cross-references: Job 19:25 · Ps 36:9 · Isa 26:19 · Isa 38:16 · Luke 23:43 · John 1:4 · +33 more

26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”Cross-references: Matt 9:28 · Matt 26:53 · Mark 9:23 · John 3:15 · John 4:14 · John 5:24 · +8 more

27She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”Cross-references: Mal 3:1 · Matt 11:3 · Matt 16:16 · Luke 2:11 · Luke 7:19 · John 1:49 · +9 more

28When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”Cross-references: Song 2:8 · Zech 3:10 · Matt 26:18 · Mark 10:49 · Mark 14:14 · Luke 10:38 · +11 more

29When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.Cross-references: Ps 27:8 · Ps 119:59 · Prov 15:23 · Prov 27:17 · Song 3:1

30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.Cross-references: John 11:20

31Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”Cross-references: Gen 37:35 · 2Sam 12:16 · John 11:19 · 1Cor 2:15

32Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”Cross-references: Luke 5:8 · Luke 8:41 · Luke 17:16 · John 4:49 · John 11:21 · John 11:37 · +3 more

33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · Gen 45:1 · Mark 3:5 · Mark 9:19 · Mark 14:33 · John 11:38 · +5 more

34and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”Cross-references: Matt 28:6 · Mark 15:47 · Mark 16:6 · John 1:39 · John 20:2

35Jesus wept.Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · Job 30:25 · Ps 35:13 · Ps 119:136 · Isa 53:3 · Isa 63:9 · +10 more

36The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”Cross-references: John 11:3 · John 14:21 · John 21:15 · 2Cor 8:8 · Eph 5:2 · Eph 5:25 · +3 more

37Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”Cross-references: Ps 78:19 · Matt 27:40 · Mark 15:32 · Luke 23:35 · Luke 23:39 · John 9:6 · +2 more

38Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.Cross-references: Gen 23:19 · Gen 49:29 · Isa 22:16 · Ezek 9:4 · Ezek 21:6 · Matt 27:60 · +6 more

39Jesus 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.”Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 23:4 · Ps 49:7 · Ps 49:9 · Ps 49:14 · Mark 16:3 · +4 more

40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”Cross-references: 2Chr 20:20 · Ps 63:2 · Ps 90:16 · John 1:14 · John 9:3 · John 11:4 · +5 more

41So 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 listened to me.Cross-references: Ps 123:1 · Matt 11:25 · Luke 10:21 · Luke 18:13 · John 12:28 · John 17:1 · +1 more

42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”Cross-references: Matt 12:22 · Matt 26:53 · John 3:17 · John 6:38 · John 7:28 · John 8:16 · +18 more

43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:21 · 2Ki 4:33 · Mark 4:41 · Luke 7:14 · Acts 3:6 · Acts 3:12 · +2 more

44He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · 1Sam 2:6 · Ps 33:9 · Ezek 37:3 · Hos 13:14 · Mark 5:43 · +12 more

45Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.Cross-references: John 2:23 · John 7:31 · John 10:41 · John 11:19 · John 11:31 · John 12:9 · +2 more

46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.Cross-references: Luke 16:30 · John 5:15 · John 9:13 · John 12:37 · Acts 5:25

47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 26:3 · Matt 27:1 · Mark 14:1 · Luke 22:2 · +8 more

48If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”Cross-references: Deut 28:50 · Dan 9:26 · Zech 13:7 · Zech 14:1 · Matt 21:40 · Matt 22:7 · +11 more

49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,Cross-references: Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:20 · Matt 26:3 · Luke 3:2 · John 7:48 · John 11:51 · +5 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

50nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”Cross-references: Luke 24:46 · John 11:48 · John 18:14 · John 19:12 · Rom 3:8Examined: The Historical Jesus →

51Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,Cross-references: Ex 28:30 · Num 22:28 · Num 24:2 · Num 24:14 · Judg 20:27 · 1Sam 23:9 · +14 more

52and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:15 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:19 · Ps 102:22 · Isa 11:10 · +29 more

53So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.Cross-references: Neh 4:16 · Neh 13:21 · Ps 2:2 · Ps 31:13 · Ps 71:10 · Ps 109:4 · +12 more

54Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.Cross-references: 2Sam 13:23 · 2Chr 13:19 · John 4:1 · John 7:1 · John 7:4 · John 7:10 · +3 more

55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.Cross-references: Gen 35:2 · Ex 12:11 · Ex 19:10 · Ex 19:14 · Num 9:6 · 1Sam 16:5 · +19 more

56Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”Cross-references: John 7:11 · John 11:7

57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.Cross-references: Ps 109:4 · John 5:16 · John 8:59 · John 9:22 · John 10:39