John 11:38-44

Jesus Raises Lazarus

38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. ¹

39 “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. ^[a] “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

Cross References

• 1. (Acts 9:36–43)

Footnotes

• [a] Greek soudariō