John 11 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - John) Free Bible Online

1 - Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

2 - It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

3 - The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

4 - But when Jesus heard it, he said,"This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

5 - Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

6 - When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

7 - Then after this he said to the disciples,"Let's go into Judea again."

8 - The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

9 - Jesus answered,"Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10 - But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

11 - He said these things, and after that, he said to them,"Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

12 - The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

13 - Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

14 - So Jesus said to them plainly then,"Lazarus is dead.

15 - I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."

16 - Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."

17 - So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

18 - Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

19 - Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

20 - Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

21 - Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

22 - Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

23 - Jesus said to her,"Your brother will rise again."

24 - Martha said to him, "I know that 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 still live, even if he dies.

26 - Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

27 - She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."