John 7-11

English Standard Version

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(A)the Jews^[a] were seeking to kill him. ² Now ^(B)the Jews' Feast of ^(C)Booths was at hand. ^3 (D)So his brothers^[b] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. ⁴ For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, ^(E)show yourself to the world.” ^5 (F)For not even ^(G)his brothers believed in him. ⁶ Jesus said to them, ^(H)“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but ^(I)it hates me because I testify about it that ^(J)its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not^[c] going up to this feast, for ^(K)my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰ But after ^(L)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ^11 (M)The Jews ^(N)were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was much ^(O)muttering about him among the people. ^(P)While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, ^(Q)he is leading the people astray.” ¹³ Yet ^(R)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴ About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(S)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore ^(T)marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[d] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶ So Jesus answered them, ^(U)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(V)who sent me. ^17 (W)If anyone's will is to do God's^[e] will, ^(X)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(Y)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(Z)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ^19 (AA)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(AB)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(AC)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did ^(AD)one work, and you all marvel at it. ^22 (AE)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(AF)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(AG)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ^24 (AH)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(AI)they seek to kill? ²⁶ And here he is, ^(AJ)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(AK)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷ But ^(AL)we know ^(AM)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(AN)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸ So Jesus proclaimed, ^(AO)as he taught in the temple, ^(AP)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(AQ)I have not come of my own accord. ^(AR)He who sent me is true, ^(AS)and him you do not know. ^29 (AT)I know him, for I come ^(AU)from him, and ^(AV)he sent me.” ^30 (AW)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(AX)no one laid a hand on him, ^(AY)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet ^(AZ)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(BA)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(BB)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(BC)officers to arrest him. ³³ Jesus then said, ^(BD)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(BE)I am going to him who sent me. ^34 (BF)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵ The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(BG)Does he intend to go to ^(BH)the Dispersion among ^(BI)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(BJ)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

^37 (BK)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(BL)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(BM)come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, ^(BN)as^[f] the Scripture has said, ^(BO)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(BP)living water.’” ³⁹ Now ^(BQ)this he said about the Spirit, ^(BR)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(BS)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(BT)given, ^(BU)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, ^(BV)some of the people said, “This really is ^(BW)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(BX)the Christ.” But some said, ^(BY)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(BZ)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(CA)from Bethlehem, the village ^(CB)where David was?” ⁴³ So there was ^(CC)a division among the people over him. ^44 (CD)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^45 (CE)The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(CF)“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, ^(CG)“Have you also been deceived? ^48 (CH)Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ^50 (CI)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^51 (CJ)“Does our law judge a man without first ^(CK)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵² They replied, ^(CL)“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(CM)no prophet arises from Galilee.”

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]^[g]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house, 8 ¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^2 (CN)Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and ^(CO)he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴ they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ Now ^(CP)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(CQ)to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶ This they said ^(CR)to test him, ^(CS)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(CT)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(CU)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, ^(CV)“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^(CW)sin no more.”]]

I Am the Light of the World

^12 (CX)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(CY)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(CZ)follows me will not ^(DA)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, ^(DB)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴ Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(DC)my testimony is true, for I know ^(DD)where I came from and ^(DE)where I am going, but ^(DF)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ^15 (DG)You judge according to the flesh; ^(DH)I judge no one. ¹⁶ Yet even if I do judge, ^(DI)my judgment is true, for ^(DJ)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[h] who sent me. ^17 (DK)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸ I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(DL)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹ They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(DM)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(DN)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰ These words he spoke in ^(DO)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(DP)no one arrested him, because ^(DQ)his hour had not yet come.

²¹ So he said to them again, ^(DR)“I am going away, and ^(DS)you will seek me, and ^(DT)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, ^(DU)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³ He said to them, ^(DV)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(DW)You are of this world; ^(DX)I am not of this world. ²⁴ I told you that you ^(DY)would die in your sins, for ^(DZ)unless you believe that ^(EA)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵ So they said to him, ^(EB)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(EC)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(ED)to the world ^(EE)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷ They did not understand that ^(EF)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(EG)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(EH)then you will know that ^(EI)I am he, and that ^(EJ)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(EK)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹ And ^(EL)he who sent me is with me. ^(EM)He has not left me alone, for ^(EN)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰ As he was saying these things, ^(EO)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(EP)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will ^(EQ)know the truth, and the truth ^(ER)will set you free.” ³³ They answered him, ^(ES)“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(ET)everyone who practices sin is a slave^[i] to sin. ^35 (EU)The slave does not remain in the house forever; ^(EV)the son remains forever. ³⁶ So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷ I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet ^(EW)you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. ^38 (EX)I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard ^(EY)from your father.”

You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹ They answered him, ^(EZ)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, ^(FA)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, ⁴⁰ but now ^(FB)you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth ^(FC)that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. ⁴¹ You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, ^(FD)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have ^(FE)one Father—even God.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, ^(FF)“If God were your Father, you would love me, for ^(FG)I came from God and ^(FH)I am here. ^(FI)I came not of my own accord, but ^(FJ)he sent me. ^43 (FK)Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ^(FL)bear to hear my word. ^44 (FM)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. ^(FN)He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(FO)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ^(FP)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ^47 (FQ)Whoever is of God hears the words of God. ^(FR)The reason why you do not hear them is that ^(FS)you are not of God.”

Before Abraham Was, I Am

⁴⁸ The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ^(FT)have a demon?” ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but ^(FU)I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰ Yet ^(FV)I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. ⁵¹ Truly, truly, ^(FW)I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(FX)see death.” ⁵² The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! ^(FY)Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet ^(FZ)you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(GA)taste death.’ ^53 (GB)Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” ⁵⁴ Jesus answered, ^(GC)“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. ^(GD)It is my Father who glorifies me, ^(GE)of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’^{[j] 55} But ^(GF)you have not known him. ^(GG)I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ^(GH)a liar ^(GI)like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. ^56 (GJ)Your father Abraham ^(GK)rejoiced ^(GL)that he would see my day. ^(GM)He saw it and was glad.” ⁵⁷ So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”^{[k] 58} Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, ^(GN)I am.” ⁵⁹ So ^(GO)they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ² And his disciples asked him, ^(GP)“Rabbi, ^(GQ)who sinned, ^(GR)this man or ^(GS)his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but ^(GT)that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ We must ^(GU)work the works of him who sent me ^(GV)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, ^(GW)I am the light of the world.” ⁶ Having said these things, ^(GX)he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. ^(GY)Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud ⁷ and said to him, “Go, wash in ^(GZ)the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ^(HA)came back seeing.

⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^(HB)“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰ So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, ^(HC)“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³ They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ^14 (HD)Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ^15 (HE)So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^(HF)from God, ^(HG)for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^(HH)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^(HI)there was a division among them. ¹⁷ So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^(HJ)“He is a prophet.”

^18 (HK)The Jews^[l] did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹ and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰ His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹ But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ²² (His parents said these things ^(HL)because they feared the Jews, for ^(HM)the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^(HN)confess Jesus^[m] to be Christ, ^(HO)he was to be put out of the synagogue.) ²³ Therefore his parents said, ^(HP)“He is of age; ask him.”

²⁴ So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ^(HQ)“Give glory to God. We know that ^(HR)this man is a sinner.” ²⁵ He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I ^(HS)was blind, now I see.” ²⁶ They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷ He answered them, ^(HT)“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” ²⁸ And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but ^(HU)we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ^(HV)we do not know where he comes from.” ³⁰ The man answered, “Why, this is ^(HW)an amazing thing! ^(HX)You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ We know that ^(HY)God does not listen to sinners, but ^(HZ)if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. ³² Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ^33 (IA)If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴ They answered him, ^(IB)“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they ^(IC)cast him out.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in ^(ID)the Son of Man?”^{[n] 36} He answered, ^(IE)“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷ Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and ^(IF)it is he who is speaking to you.” ³⁸ He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹ Jesus said, ^(IG)“For judgment I came into this world, ^(IH)that those who do not see may see, and ^(II)those who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^(IJ)“Are we also blind?” ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, ^(IK)you would have no guilt;^[o] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

I Am the Good Shepherd

10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. ² But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴ When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ^5 (IL)A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶ This figure of speech Jesus ^(IM)used with them, but they ^(IN)did not understand what he was saying to them.

⁷ So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(IO)I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by me, ^(IP)he will be saved and will go in and out and ^(IQ)find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and ^(IR)kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ^11 (IS)I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ^(IT)lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² He who is ^(IU)a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ^(IV)leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and ^(IW)scatters them. ¹³ He flees because ^(IX)he is a hired hand and ^(IY)cares nothing for the sheep. ^14 (IZ)I am the good shepherd. ^(JA)I know my own and ^(JB)my own know me, ^15 (JC)just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and ^(JD)I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And ^(JE)I have other sheep that are not of this fold. ^(JF)I must bring them also, and ^(JG)they will listen to my voice. So there will be ^(JH)one flock, ^(JI)one shepherd. ^17 (JJ)For this reason the Father loves me, ^(JK)because ^(JL)I lay down my life that I may take it up again. ^18 (JM)No one takes it from me, but ^(JN)I lay it down ^(JO)of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and ^(JP)I have authority to take it up again. ^(JQ)This charge I have received from my Father.”

^19 (JR)There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰ Many of them said, ^(JS)“He has a demon, and ^(JT)is insane; why listen to him?” ²¹ Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. ^(JU)Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

I and the Father Are One

²² At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple, ^(JV)in the colonnade of Solomon. ²⁴ So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ^(JW)the Christ, ^(JX)tell us plainly.” ²⁵ Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. ^(JY)The works that I do ^(JZ)in my Father's name bear witness about me, ²⁶ but ^(KA)you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. ^27 (KB)My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ^28 (KC)I give them eternal life, and ^(KD)they will never perish, and ^(KE)no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, ^(KF)who has given them to me,^{[p] (KG)}is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^(KH)the Father's hand. ^30 (KI)I and the Father are one.”

^31 (KJ)The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³ The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ^(KK)for blasphemy, because you, being a man, ^(KL)make yourself God.” ³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in ^(KM)your Law, ^(KN)‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be ^(KO)broken— ³⁶ do you say of him whom ^(KP)the Father consecrated and ^(KQ)sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^(KR)I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ^37 (KS)If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸ but if I do them, ^(KT)even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ^(KU)the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ^39 (KV)Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

⁴⁰ He went away again across the Jordan to the place ^(KW)where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹ And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but ^(KX)everything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴² And ^(KY)many believed in him there.

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of ^(KZ)Mary and her sister Martha. ^2 (LA)It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. ³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, ^(LB)he whom you love is ill.” ⁴ But when Jesus heard it he said, ^(LC)“This illness does not lead to death. It is for ^(LD)the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵ Now ^(LE)Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So, when he heard that Lazarus^[q] was ill, ^(LF)he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. ⁷ Then after this he said to the disciples, ^(LG)“Let us go to Judea again.” ⁸ The disciples said to him, ^(LH)“Rabbi, ^(LI)the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹ Jesus answered, ^(LJ)“Are there not twelve hours in the day? ^(LK)If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But ^(LL)if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not ^(LM)in him.” ¹¹ After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus ^(LN)has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” ¹² The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” ¹³ Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴ Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, ¹⁵ and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ^16 (LO)So Thomas, called the Twin,^[r] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, ^(LP)that we may die with him.”

I Am the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb ^(LQ)four days. ¹⁸ Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles^[s] off, ¹⁹ and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary ^(LR)to console them concerning their brother. ^20 (LS)So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. ²¹ Martha said to ^(LT)Jesus, “Lord, ^(LU)if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, ^(LV)God will give you.” ²³ Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ^24 (LW)Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in ^(LX)the resurrection on the last day.” ²⁵ Jesus said to her, ^(LY)“I am the resurrection and ^(LZ)the life.^[t] Whoever believes in me, ^(MA)though he die, ^(MB)yet shall he live, ²⁶ and everyone who lives and believes in me ^(MC)shall never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷ She said to him, “Yes, Lord; ^(MD)I believe that ^(ME)you are the Christ, the Son of God, ^(MF)who is coming into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, ^(MG)“The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” ²⁹ And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. ³¹ When the Jews ^(MH)who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. ³² Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, ^(MI)“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he ^(MJ)was deeply moved^[u] in his spirit and ^(MK)greatly troubled. ³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ^35 (ML)Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews said, “See ^(MM)how he loved him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he ^(MN)who opened the eyes of the blind man ^(MO)also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

³⁸ Then Jesus, ^(MP)deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was ^(MQ)a cave, and ^(MR)a stone lay against it. ³⁹ Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for ^(MS)he has been dead four days.” ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, ^(MT)“Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see ^(MU)the glory of God?” ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus ^(MV)lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ^42 (MW)I knew that you always hear me, but I said this ^(MX)on account of the people standing around, ^(MY)that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³ When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” ^44 (MZ)The man who had died came out, ^(NA)his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and ^(NB)his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

^45 (NC)Many of the Jews therefore, ^(ND)who had come with Mary and ^(NE)had seen what he did, believed in him, ⁴⁶ but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees ^(NF)gathered ^(NG)the council and said, ^(NH)“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and ^(NI)the Romans will come and take away both our ^(NJ)place and our nation.” ⁴⁹ But one of them, ^(NK)Caiaphas, ^(NL)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. ⁵⁰ Nor do you understand that ^(NM)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” ⁵¹ He did not say this of his own accord, but ^(NN)being high priest that year ^(NO)he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ⁵² and ^(NP)not for the nation only, but also ^(NQ)to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³ So from that day on they ^(NR)made plans to put him to death.

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore ^(NS)no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now ^(NT)the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and ^(NU)many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover ^(NV)to purify themselves.