²⁸ On saying this she went back and called her sister Mary, whispering to her, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

²⁹ As soon as she heard it, she jumped up and started to Jesus, ³⁰ for He had not yet come into the village, but He was still at the place where Martha had met Him. ³¹ So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

³² When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

³³ So when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, He sighed in sympathy and shook with emotion, ³⁴ and asked, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Lord, come and see."

³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

³⁶ So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!" ³⁷ But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"