And a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been laid at his gate,

And in Hades he looked up, in constant tortures as he was, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus his bosom companion.

So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.'

But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there.

Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who poured the perfume upon the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

So Jesus then told them plainly: "Lazarus is dead,

When Jesus reached there, He found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

On saying this, He shouted aloud, "Lazarus, come out!"

Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.

So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus,

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.