Jesus Raises Lazarus
38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
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“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.”
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Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
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So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
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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.”
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After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
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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. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.