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Themes in John 11
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Themes in John 11

John 11:1

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

John 11:2

It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

John 11:3

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is sick."

John 11:4

When Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

John 11:6

So, when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was.

John 11:7

Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

John 11:8

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"

John 11:9

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

John 11:10

But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

John 11:11

These things he said, and after that he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to wake him up."

John 11:12

His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will recover."

John 11:13

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

John 11:14

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

John 11:15

and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

John 11:16

Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

John 11:17

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

John 11:18

Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,

John 11:19

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.

John 11:20

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary sat in the house.

John 11:21

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

John 11:22

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

John 11:23

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

John 11:24

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;

John 11:26

and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

John 11:27

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."

John 11:28

And when she had said this, she went her way and called Mary her sister, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

John 11:29

When she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.

John 11:30

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

John 11:31

The Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

John 11:32

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

John 11:33

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

John 11:34

And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

John 11:36

Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

John 11:37

But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"

John 11:38

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

John 11:39

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days."

John 11:40

Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"

John 11:41

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

John 11:42

I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing by, that they may believe that you sent me."

John 11:43

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

John 11:44

The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with grave clothes, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

John 11:45

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

John 11:46

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

John 11:47

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

John 11:49

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!

John 11:50

You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

John 11:51

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

John 11:52

and not for that nation only, but also that he would gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to put him to death.

John 11:54

Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with his disciples.

John 11:55

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

John 11:56

They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
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John 11:57

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.
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