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.’