Jesus

Now Yeshua had used the phrase to speak about El‘azar’s death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.

So Yeshua told them in plain language, “El‘azar has died.

And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn’t there, so that you may come to trust. But let’s go to him.”

Then T’oma (the name means “twin”) said to his fellow talmidim, “Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!”

On arrival, Yeshua found that El‘azar had already been in the tomb for four days.

So when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet him; but Miryam continued sitting shiv‘ah in the house.

Marta said to Yeshua, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

Yeshua said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Marta said, “I know that he will rise again at the Resurrection on the Last Day.”

Yeshua said to her, “I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Whoever puts his trust in me will live, even if he dies;

and everyone living and trusting in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”

When she heard this, she jumped up and went to him.

Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;

When Miryam came to where Yeshua was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

When Yeshua saw her crying, and also the Judeans who came with her crying, he was deeply moved and also troubled.

He said, “Where have you buried him?” They said, “Lord, come and see.”

Yeshua cried;

so the Judeans there said, “See how he loved him!”

But some of them said, “He opened the blind man’s eyes. Couldn’t he have kept this one from dying?”

Yeshua, again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of the entrance.

Yeshua said, “Take the stone away!” Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yeshua, “By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!”

Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you keep trusting, you will see the glory of God?”

So they removed the stone. Yeshua looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.