1. Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
3. So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.”
4. When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was.
7. Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8. The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?”