Lazarus of Bethany was sick. His sisters Mary and Martha sent for Jesus, “Lord, behold, he that you love is sick.” Jesus, hearing it, said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified through it.”
Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. When He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed two days in the place where He was, then after this, He said to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews just now sought to stone you, but you go there again?” Jesus said, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks in the day, he stumbles not because he sees the light of the world. If anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him.
“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I go that I may wake him.” Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be saved.”
Jesus, however, had spoken of death, but they supposed that He spoke of sleep. Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. I rejoice for your sakes, in order that you believe. Let us go to him.” Thomas said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
Bethany is about fifteen furlongs from Jerusalem. Jesus arrived and found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. Many of the Jews had come to Martha, Mary, and their friends to comfort them. Martha, when she heard that Jesus had arrived, met Him, but Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord if you had been here, my brother would not have died. Now I know that whatever things you will ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”
Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me, though he was dead, he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die, believe you this?”
She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Anointed One, the Son of God, He that comes into the world.”
After saying this, she went away and called Mary secretly, “The Teacher is present and calls for you.”
When she heard, she rose quickly and came to Him, but Jesus had not yet come into the village and was in the place where Martha had met Him. The Jews that were with her in the house followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb, that she might weep there.
Mary came to where Jesus was, seeing Him, fell at His feet, saying, “Lord, if you had been here, he would not have died.”
Jesus saw her and the Jews weeping. He was greatly moved and troubled in His spirit and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
Jesus wept.
The Jews said, “See how He loved him.” Some of them said, “Could not this man, that opened the eyes of the blind man, have made it that even this man should not die?”
Jesus was incredibly moved when He came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone laid upon the entrance. Jesus said, “Takeaway the stone.”
Martha said to Him, “Lord, the smell...
Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was. They made Him a supper there, Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those that sat at the table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of the very costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the perfume of the ointment.
Judas Iscariot, who was about to deliver Him up, said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and having the bag he stole from what was thrown in. Jesus said, “Let her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it until the day of my burial. The poor you have always with you, but me, you will not always have.”
Some Jews knew that He was there and came not only because of Jesus but to also see Lazarus. The chief priests had determined that they would also kill Lazarus because many of the Jews, on account of him, went away and believed in Jesus.
On the next day, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, a crowd came to the feast. They took branches of palm trees and went to meet Him and cried, “Hosanna, blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord, and blessed is the King of Israel.”
Jesus, finding a young ass, sat upon it, as it is written: “Fear not, daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes sitting upon the foal of an ass.” These things His disciples knew not at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him.
The crowd that was with Him testified that He had raised Lazarus from the dead. For this reason, others went to meet Him. The Pharisees said among themselves, “You see that we profit nothing, behold, the world has gone after Him.”
Some Greeks who went to worship at the feast came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
Philip came and told Andrew, “Andrew, go and tell Jesus.” Jesus said, “The hour has come that the Son of man will be glorified. Truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls onto the ground and dies, itself stays alone, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.
“He that loves his life will lose it, and he that hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there they also will be. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor.
“My soul is troubled, and what will I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this reason, I came. Father, glorify your name.”
A voice from heaven said, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The crowd that stood by said, “It thundered,” others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.” Jesus said, “This voice came for your sake. Now is the judgment of this world, the prince of this world will be cast out, and when I will be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.” This He said, signifying what kind of death He was about to have.
Then the crowd answered Him, “We have heard...
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments. He took a towel and wrapped it around His waist, poured water into a basin, began to wash the feet of the disciples and wiped them with the towel. Peter said to Him, “Lord, why do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “What I am doing you know not now, but you will know after this.”
Peter said to Him, “You should never wash my feet.” Jesus said, “Unless I wash you, you won’t have part with me.”
Peter said, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head.” Jesus said to him, “He that has bathed has no need to wash his hands and head, but is wholly clean, and you are clean, but not all of you are clean.” He knew him, who would deliver Him up.
When He had washed their feet and dressed, He sat at the table and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? You call me Teacher and Lord. If, then, I have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he that sent him.
“Blessed are you if you do these things. I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the scripture might be fulfilled: ‘He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
“Even now, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it will have come to pass, you may believe that I am He. Truly, truly, I say to you, he that receives whom I will send receives me, and he that receives me receives Him that sent me.”
After saying these things, Jesus was troubled and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up.” The disciples looked at one another, doubting whom He spoke.
The disciple, whom Jesus loved...
Jesus said to His Disciples, “Believe in God; let not your hearts be troubled, believe also in me. In my Father's house, there are many dwelling places. If not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. When I will have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again, and take you to myself, that where I am, you also may be. Where I go, you know the way.”
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we know not where you go, and how do we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me. If you have known me, you will know my Father also. Even now, you know Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Such a long time I have been with you, and you have not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father, why do you say: ‘Show us the Father?’ You believe not that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself, but of the Father, who lives in me, does the works.
“Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; if not, believe because of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, he that believes in me, the works that I do he also will do, and greater works than these will he do because I go to the Father.
“Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
“I will entreat the Father and another Advocate will He give you, that he might be with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him, you know him because he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I am coming to you.
“Yet a little while and the world sees me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, and you will live. On that day, you will know that I am in my Father and, you in me and I in you.
“He that does and keeps my commandments...
Jesus said to His disciples, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears not fruit He takes away, and everyone that bears fruit, He cleanses, that it may bear more fruit.
“You are now clean because of the word that I have spoken to you, trust in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it trusts in the vine, so neither can you unless you trust in me. I am the vine, you the branches. He that trusts in me and I in him, he bears much fruit. Without me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not trust in me, he is cast out as the branch and withers, and they gather it and throw it into the fire, and it is burned. If you trust in me and my words live in you, ask whatever you will, and it will be done for you. In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you.
“Trust in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will live in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and live in His love. These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and your joy may be fulfilled.
“My commandment is that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do the things I command you.
“I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his lord does, but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
“You have not chosen me...