Thematic Bible
John 11:1 (show verse)
Acertain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:2 (show verse)
It was that Mary which anointed Jesus with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick,
John 11:3 (show verse)
and his sisters sent unto him, saying, "Lord behold, he whom thou lovest is sick."
John 11:4 (show verse)
When Jesus that heard he said, "This infirmity is not unto death: But for the laud of God, that the son of God might be praised by the reason of it."
John 11:5 (show verse)
Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.
John 11:6 (show verse)
After he heard that he was sick, then abode he two days still in the same place where he was.
John 11:7 (show verse)
Then after that said he to his disciples, "Let us go into Jewry again."
John 11:8 (show verse)
His disciples said unto him, "Master, the Jews lately sought means to stone thee, and wilt thou go thither again?"
John 11:9 (show verse)
Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John 11:10 (show verse)
But if a man walk in the night he stumbleth, because there is no light in him."
John 11:11 (show verse)
This said he. And after that he said unto them, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go to wake him out of sleep."
John 11:12 (show verse)
Then said his disciples, "Lord, if he sleep, then shall he do well enough."
John 11:13 (show verse)
Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of the natural sleep.
John 11:14 (show verse)
Then said Jesus unto them, plainly, "Lazarus is dead,
John 11:15 (show verse)
and I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, because ye may believe. Nevertheless let us go unto him."
John 11:16 (show verse)
Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
John 11:17 (show verse)
Then went Jesus, and found that he had lain in his grave four days already.
John 11:18 (show verse)
Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
John 11:19 (show verse)
And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them over their brother.
John 11:20 (show verse)
Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him. But Mary sat still in the house.
John 11:21 (show verse)
Then said Martha unto Jesus, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not been dead:
John 11:22 (show verse)
but nevertheless, I know that whatsoever thou askest of God, God will give it thee."
John 11:23 (show verse)
Jesus said unto her, "Thy brother shall rise again."
John 11:24 (show verse)
Martha said unto him, I know well, that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
John 11:25 (show verse)
Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth on me; Yea though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John 11:26 (show verse)
and whosoever liveth, and believeth on me, shall never die. Believest thou this?"
John 11:27 (show verse)
She said unto him, "Yea Lord: I believe that thou art Christ, the son of God, which should come into the world."
John 11:28 (show verse)
And as soon as she had so said she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, "The master is come and calleth for thee."
John 11:29 (show verse)
And she, as soon as she heard that, arose quickly, and came unto him.
John 11:30 (show verse)
Jesus was not yet come into the town: but was in the place where Martha met him.
John 11:31 (show verse)
The Jews then, which were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up hastily, and went out: followed her, saying, "She goeth unto the grave, to weep there."
John 11:32 (show verse)
Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, "Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not been dead."
John 11:33 (show verse)
When Jesus saw her weep, and the Jews also weep, which came with her; He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled in himself,
John 11:34 (show verse)
and said, "Where have ye laid him?" They said unto him, "Lord, come and see."
John 11:35 (show verse)
And Jesus wept.
John 11:36 (show verse)
Then said the Jews, "Behold how he loved him."
John 11:37 (show verse)
And some of them said, "Could not he which opened the eyes of the blind, have made also, that this man should not have died?"
John 11:38 (show verse)
Jesus again groaned in himself and came to the grave: it was a cave, and a stone laid on it.
John 11:39 (show verse)
And Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, "Lord by this time he stinketh. For he hath been dead four days."
John 11:40 (show verse)
Jesus said unto her, "Said I not unto thee, that if thou didst believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?"
John 11:41 (show verse)
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lift up his eyes and said, "father I thank thee, because that thou hast heard me;
John 11:42 (show verse)
I know that thou hearest me always: but because of the people that stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
John 11:43 (show verse)
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus come forth."
John 11:44 (show verse)
And he that was dead, came forth bound hand and foot, with grave bonds after the manner as they were wont to bind their dead withal. And his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, "Loose him, and let him go."
John 11:45 (show verse)
Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
John 11:46 (show verse)
But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.
John 11:47 (show verse)
Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles.
John 11:48 (show verse)
If we let him escape thus, all men will believe on him. And the Romans shall come and take away our country and the people."
John 11:49 (show verse)
And one of them named Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year, said unto them, "Ye perceive nothing at all:
John 11:50 (show verse)
nor yet consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that all the people perish."
John 11:51 (show verse)
This spake he not of himself: but being high priest that same year, prophesied he that Jesus should die for the people,
John 11:52 (show verse)
and not for the people only: but that he should gather together in one the children of God which were scattered abroad.
John 11:53 (show verse)
From that day forth they held a counsel together for to put him to death.
John 11:54 (show verse)
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews: but went his way thence unto a country nigh to a wilderness into a city called Ephraim, and there haunted with his disciples.
John 11:55 (show verse)
And the Jews' Easter was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Easter to purify themselves.
John 11:56 (show verse)
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake between themselves, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye, seeing he cometh not to the feast?"
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John 11:57 (show verse)
The high priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were, he should show it that they might take him.