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There was a man of Bethany the town of Mary and Martha. His name was Lazarus. He was sick. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.

"Lord," his sisters sent and said to Jesus, "he whom you love is sick."

"This sickness is not one which ends in death," said Jesus when he heard this. "On the contrary it is for the honor of God, so that the Son of God may be honored by it."

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard he was sick he staid two days still in the place where he was.

"Let us go into Judæa again," he afterwards said to his disciples.

"Rabbi," said his disciples, "the Jews were but now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?

If any one walks about in the day he does not stumble,

Because he sees the light of this world. But if any one walks about in the night he stumbles

Because he has no light."

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"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep," Jesus added after he said this. "But I am going to wake him out of sleep."

"Lord," said his disciples, "if he has fallen asleep he will recover."

Jesus had spoken of his death. But they thought he had spoken of taking rest in sleep.

"Lazarus is dead," he then told them plainly, "and I am glad for your sakes I was not there so you may believe. And yet let us go to him." "Let us also go so that we may die with him," said Thomas called Didymus to the rest of the dis-. ciples.

When Jesus came he found Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem. So many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. So as soon as she heard Jesus was coming Martha went and met him, but Mary kept sitting in the house.

"Lord," said Martha, "if you had been here my brother would not have died. But I know that even now whatever you shall ask of God he will give you."

"Your brother shall rise again."

"I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

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"I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who keeps believing in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whoever keeps living, that is, keeps believing in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

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Yes, Lord, I have learnt to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.'

When she had said this she went away and called Mary her sister secretly.

"Teacher is here and is calling you," she said. As soon as she heard that, Mary rose up quickly and came to Jesus. Jesus had not yet come into the town but was in the place where Martha met him. Then the Jews in the house with her comforting her followed her. For they saw Mary rise up quickly and go out.

"She is going to the tomb to cry there," they said.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him she fell at his feet.

"Lord," she said, "if you had been here my brother would not have died."

So when Jesus saw her crying and the Jews also who came with her crying, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

"Where have you laid him?" he asked.

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Jesus wept.

"See how he loved him," said the Jews at this. "Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?" said some of them.

So Jesus again groaning in himself came to the tomb.

It was a cave, and a stone was lying on it. "Take the stone away," he said.

"Lord," said Martha the sister of him who was dead, "by this time he is stinking. For he has been dead four days."

"Did I not tell you if you would believe you should see the majesty of God?”

So they took the stone away from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted up his eyes.

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Father," he said, "I thank thee that thou hast heard me, but I know thou hearest me always. But because of the people standing by I said it so that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

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Lazarus, come out!" he cried with a loud voice, when he had said this.

So he who was dead came out bound hand and

foot with grave cloths. His face was bound about with a napkin.

"Undo him and let him go," Jesus added.

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So many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. So the Chief Priests and the Pharisees gathered a council.

"What are we doing?" they said. "For this man is doing many signs. If we let him alone in this way everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation."

"You do not know anything at all,” said one of them named Caiaphas, the High Priest that year, "nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

He did not say this of his own accord, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for that nation only, but so that he might also gather together in one the children of God scattered abroad.

From that day they plotted to put Jesus to death. So Jesus no longer kept going about openly among the Jews, but went from that place to the country near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim and staid there with his disciples.

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