Daily Bread

²⁸ After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher^(A) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” ²⁹ When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.^{(B) 31} When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(C) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

³² When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”^(D)

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved^(E) in spirit and troubled.^{(F) 34} “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(G)

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”^(H)

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(I) have kept this man from dying?”^(J)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved,^(K) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.^{(L) 39} “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”^(M)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(N) you will see the glory of God?”^(O)

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(P) and said, “Father,^(Q) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(R) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(S)

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(T) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(U) and a cloth around his face.^(V)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”