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 covered 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, you should know your good friend is sick.”

4 But when Joshua+ 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 Joshua loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to his students, “Let’s go into Judah again.”

8 The students asked him, “Professor, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

9 Joshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light given this world. 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t there.” 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 So the students said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13 Now Joshua had spoken of the Big Sleep, but they thought that he spoke of rest-sleep. 14 So Joshua 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. Anyway, let’s go.”

16 Thomas therefore, whose nickname was Double-Take, said to his fellow students, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”

17 So when Joshua came, he found that he had been entombed four days already. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two and a half kilometers 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 Joshua was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 21 Therefore Martha said to Joshua, “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 Joshua said to her, “Your brother will recover.”

24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will arise in the Resurgence of the last day.”

25 Joshua said to her, “I am the Resurgence and the life. Every Believer experiences a full life, regardless of death. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never fully die. Do you believe this?”

27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s own offspring, come into the world.”

28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Professor is here and is calling you.”

29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. 30 Now Joshua had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

32 Therefore when Mary came to where Joshua was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

33 When Joshua therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, his Breath became labored because he was troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?”

They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

35 Joshua wept.

36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

38 Joshua therefore, again belabored, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Joshua said, “Take away the stone.”