JOHN Chapter 11:1-57

Now a man named Lazarus was sick.

He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 This Mary whose brother now lay sick,

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 sick.'

4 When He heard this, Jesus said,

'This sickness will not end in Death.

No, it is for God's Glory

So that God's Son may be Glorified through it.'

5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6 Yet when He heard that Lazarus was sick,

He stayed where He was two more days.

7 Then He said to His Disciples, 'Let us go back to Judea.'

8 'But Rabbi,' they said, 'a short while ago

The Jews tried to stone You,

And yet you are going back there?'

9 Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours of daylight?

A man who walks by day will not stumble,

For he sees by this World's light.

10 It is when he walks by night that he stumbles,

For he has no light.'

11 After he had said this, He went on to tell them,

'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep;

But I am going there to Wake him up.'

12 His Disciples replied,

'Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.'

13 Jesus had been speaking of his Death,

But his Disciples thought He meant natural sleep.

14 So then He told them plainly, 'Lazarus is Dead,

15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there,

So that you may Believe.

But let us go to him.'

16 Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the Disciples,

'Let us also go, that we may die with Him.'

Jesus Comforts The Sisters

17 On His arrival, Jesus found

That Lazarus had already been in the Tomb for four days.

18 Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

19 And many Jews had comer to Martha and Mary

To comfort them in the loss of their brother.

20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,

She went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

21 'Lord,” Martha said to Jesus,

'If you had been here, my brother would not have died.

22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.'

23 Jesus said to her, 'Your brother will rise again.'

24 Martha answered,

'I know he will rise in the Resurrection at The Last Day.'

25 Jesus said to her,

'I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.

HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL LIVE, EVEN THOUGH HE DIES;

26 AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME WILL NEVER DIE.

Do you believe this?'

27 'Yes, Lord,' she told Him,

'I Believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,

Who was to come into the World.'

28 And after she had said this

She went back and called her sister Mary aside.

'The Teacher is here,' she said, 'and is asking for you.'

29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village,

But was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house,

Comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out,

They followed her, supposing she was going to the Tomb to mourn there.

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw Him,

She fell at His feet and said,

'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.'

33 When Jesus saw her weeping,

And the Jews who had come along with her also weeping,

He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

34'Where have you laid him?' He asked.

'Come and see, Lord,' they replied.''

35 Jesus Wept.

36 Then the Jews said, 'See how He loved him!'

37 But some of them said,

'Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man

Have kept this man from dying?'

Jesus Raises Lazarus From The Dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb.

It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

39 'TAKE AWAY THE STONE,' He said.

'But, Lord,' said Martha, the sister of the dead man,

'By this time there is a bad odor,

For he has been there four days.'

Then Jesus said,

'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 looked Up and said,

'FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU HAVE HEARD ME.

42 I KNEW THAT YOU ALWAYS HEAR ME,

BUT I SAID THIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE STANDING HERE,

THAT THEY MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME.'

43 When He had said this, Jesus called out in a Loud Voice,

'LAZARUS COME OUT!'

44 The dead man came out,

His hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,

And a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them,

'TAKE OFF THE GRAVE CLOTHES AND LET HIM GO.'

The Plot To Kill Jesus

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,

And had seen what Jesus did, put their Faith in Him.

46 But some of them went to the Pharisees

And told them what Jesus had done.

47 Then the Chief Priests and the Pharisees

Called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

'What are we accomplishing?' they asked.

'Here is this man performing many miraculous signs.

If we let him go on like this,

Everyone will believe in Him,

And then the Romans will come and take away

Both our place and our Nation.

49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas,

Who was High Priest that year, spoke up,

'YOU KNOW NOTHING AT ALL!

50 You do not realize that it is better for you

That one man die for the people

Than that the Whole Nation Perish.'

51 He did not say this on his own,

But as High Priest that year he Prophesied

That Jesus would die for the Jewish Nation,

And not only for that Nation

But also for the scattered Children of God,

TO BRING THEM TOGETHER AND MAKE THEM ONE.

53 SO FROM THAT DAY ON THEY PLOTTED TO TAKE HIS LIFE.

54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews.

Instead He withdrew to a region near the desert,

To a village called Ephraim, where He stayed with His Disciples.

55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,

Many went up form the country to Jerusalem

For their Ceremonial Cleansing before the Passover.

56 They kept looking for Jesus,

And as they stood in the Temple area they asked one another,

Isn't He coming to the Feast at all?'

57 But the Chief Priests and Pharisees had given orders

That if anyone found out where Jesus was,

He should report it so that they might arrest Him.

(John 11:1-57)

Today, Jesus would be Arrested as a Charlatan.

He is being Crucified everyday by the godless Culture

And the Apostate Church.

The godless Culture and the Apostate Church

Are preparing to receive their “god,” the son of Satan,

The Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist. (Revelation 13)