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John 11:21-44 NIV
21 "Lord," Martha said to
Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But I know that even now
God will give you whatever you ask."
23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He
who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
26 and whoever lives and
believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
27 "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the
Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
28 And after she had said this, she went back and called her
sister Mary aside. "The Teacher 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.
31 When the Jews who had been
with Mary in the house, comforting her, 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."
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along
with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34 "Where have you laid him?"
he asked.
"Come and see, Lord," they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of
the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a
cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
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."
40 Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed,
you would see the glory of God?"
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said,
"Father, 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,
that they may believe that you sent me."
43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out!"
44 The dead man came out, his
hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his
face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him
go."
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