Mar 27, 2023
HOLY GOSPEL: John 11:1-45
1Now a certain
man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister
Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the
Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother
Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters
sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is
ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it, he said,
“This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory,
so that the Son of God may be glorified through
it.” 5Accordingly, though Jesus loved
Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6after having
heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place
where he was.
7Then after
this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea
again.” 8The disciples said to him,
“Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you
going there again?” 9Jesus
answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk
during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this
world. 10But those who walk at night
stumble, because the light is not in
them.” 11After saying this, he told them,
“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to
awaken him.” 12The disciples said to him, “Lord,
if he has fallen asleep, he will be all
right.” 13Jesus, however, had been speaking
about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to
sleep. 14Then Jesus told them plainly,
“Lazarus is dead. 15For your sake
I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to
him.” 16Thomas, who was called the Twin,
said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with
him.”
17When Jesus
arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four
days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem,
some two miles away, 19and many of
the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their
brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was
coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at
home. 21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if
you had been here, my brother would not have
died. 22But even now I know that God will
give you whatever you ask of him.” 23Jesus said to
her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to
him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the
last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am the
resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though
they die, will live, 26and everyone
who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?” 27She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I
believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming
into the world.”
28When she had
said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her
privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for
you.” 29And when she heard it, she got up
quickly and went to him. 30Now Jesus had
not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where
Martha had met him. 31The Jews who
were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly
and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was
going to the tomb to weep there. 32When Mary came
where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him,
“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have
died.” 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and
the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed
in spirit and deeply moved. 34He said,
“Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and
see.” 35Jesus began to
weep. 36So the Jews said, “See how he
loved him!” 37But some of them said, “Could not
he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from
dying?”
38Then Jesus,
again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a
stone was lying against it. 39Jesus said,
“Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to
him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four
days.” 40Jesus said to her, “Did I not
tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of
God?” 41So they took away the stone. And
Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard
me. 42I knew that you always hear me,
but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so
that they may believe that you sent me.” 43When he had
said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come
out!” 44The dead man came out, his hands
and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a
cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him
go.”
45Many of the
Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did,
believed in him.