1. A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, was ill. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
2. (This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.)
3. The sisters sent Jesus a message: “Lord, your dear friend is ill.”
4. When Jesus heard it, he said, “The final result of this illness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.”