Bible Verses About Lazarus

There was a man who had fallen sick. His name was El‘azar, and he came from Beit-Anyah, the village where Miryam and her sister Marta lived.

(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

So the sisters sent a message to Yeshua, “Lord, the man you love is sick.”

On hearing it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may receive glory through it.”

Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El‘azar;

so when he heard he was sick, first he stayed where he was two more days;

then, after this, he said to the talmidim, “Let’s go back to Y’hudah.”

The talmidim replied, “Rabbi! Just a short while ago the Judeans were out to stone you — and you want to go back there?”

Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn’t stumble; because he sees the light of this world.

But if a person walks at night, he does stumble; because he has no light with him.”

Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, “Our friend El‘azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up.”

The talmidim said to him, “Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better.”

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.

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.

I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me.”

Having said this, he shouted, “El‘azar! Come out!”

The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yeshua said to them, “Unwrap him, and let him go!”

Six days before Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El‘azar lived, the man Yeshua had raised from the dead;

so they gave a dinner there in his honor. Marta served the meal, and El‘azar was among those at the table with him.

The head cohanim then decided to do away with El‘azar too,

since it was because of him that large numbers of the Judeans were leaving their leaders and putting their trust in Yeshua.