28. After Martha said this, she went back to her sister Mary. She talked to Mary alone. Martha said, “The Teacher is here and he is asking for you.”
29. When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Jesus.
30. Jesus had not yet come into the town. He was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31. The Jews were with Mary in the house, comforting her. They saw Mary stand and leave quickly. They followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to cry there.
32. But Mary went to the place where Jesus was. When she saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33. Jesus saw that Mary was crying and that the Jews who came with her were crying, too. Jesus felt very sad in his heart and was deeply troubled.
34. He asked, “Where did you bury him?”“Come and see, Lord,” they said.
35. Jesus cried.
36. So the Jews said, “See how much he loved him.”
37. But some of them said, “If Jesus healed the eyes of the blind man, why didn’t he keep Lazarus from dying?”
38. Again Jesus felt very sad in his heart. He came to the tomb. The tomb was a cave with a large stone covering the entrance.
39. Jesus said, “Move the stone away.”Martha said, “But, Lord, it has been four days since he died. There will be a bad smell.” Martha was the sister of the dead man.
40. Then Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41. So they moved the stone away from the entrance. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me.
42. I know that you always hear me. But I said these things because of the people here around me. I want them to believe that you sent me.”