1. Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay ill, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
3. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is ill.’
4. When he heard this, Jesus said, ‘This illness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.’
5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6. So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was two more days,
7. and then he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go back to Judea.’
8. ‘But Rabbi,’ they said, ‘a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?’