News from Bethany

1A certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2It was Mary who had anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

3So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

5Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6So when he heard that he was sick, he then stayed two days in the place where he was.

7Then after this he says to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”

8The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”

9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.”

10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

11After saying these things, he said to them, “Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake him up.”

12So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the sleep of rest.

14So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.”

15And I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.

16So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with him.”