John 11:11-44

11 Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, "Our friend El`azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up."

12 The talmidim said to him, "Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better."

13 Now Yeshua had used the phrase to speak about El`azar's death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.

14 So Yeshua told them in plain language, "El`azar has died.

15 And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn't there, so that you may come to trust. But let's go to him."

16 Then T'oma (the name means "twin") said to his fellow talmidim, "Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!"

17 On arrival, Yeshua found that El`azar had already been in the tomb for four days.

18 Now Beit-Anyah was about two miles from Yerushalayim,

19 and many of the Judeans had come to Marta and Miryam in order to comfort them at the loss of their brother.

20 So when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet him; but Miryam continued sitting shiv`ah in the house.

21 Marta said to Yeshua, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

23 Yeshua said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

24 Marta said, "I know that he will rise again at the Resurrection on the Last Day."

25 Yeshua said to her, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Whoever puts his trust in me will live, even if he dies;

26 and everyone living and trusting in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world."

28 After saying this, she went off and secretly called Miryam, her sister: "The Rabbi is here and is calling for you."

29 When she heard this, she jumped up and went to him.

30 Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;

31 so when the Judeans who had been with Miryam in the house comforting her saw her get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

32 When Miryam came to where Yeshua was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

33 When Yeshua saw her crying, and also the Judeans who came with her crying, he was deeply moved and also troubled.

34 He said, "Where have you buried him?" They said, "Lord, come and see."

35 Yeshua cried;

36 so the Judeans there said, "See how he loved him!"

37 But some of them said, "He opened the blind man's eyes. Couldn't he have kept this one from dying?"

38 Yeshua, again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of the entrance.

39 Yeshua said, "Take the stone away!" Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yeshua, "By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!"

40 Yeshua said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you keep trusting, you will see the glory of God?"

41 So they removed the stone. Yeshua looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

42 I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me."

43 Having said this, he shouted, "El`azar! Come out!"

44 The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yeshua said to them, "Unwrap him, and let him go!"