Part 18

010:035 If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

010:036 how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said, `I am God's Son'?

010:037 If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me.

010:038 But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

010:039 This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.

010:040 Then He went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing at first; and there He stayed.

010:041 Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, "John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about this Teacher was true."

010:042 And many became believers in Him there.

011:001 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

011:002 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)

011:003 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."

011:004 Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

011:005 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

011:006 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.

011:007 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us return to Judaea."

011:008 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?"

011:009 "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble-- because he sees the light of this world.

011:010 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

011:011 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."

011:012 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."

011:013 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

011:014 So then He told them plainly,

011:015 "Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."

011:016 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."

011:017 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

011:018 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;

011:019 and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.

011:020 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.