When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazaros had already been in the tomb four days. But let us go to him.' Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, 'Let us also go, that we may die with him.' Then Jesus told them plainly, 'Lazaros is dead and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.' Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, 'Our friend Lazaros has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep.' The disciples said to him, 'Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.' Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then after this he said to the disciples, 'Let us go into Judea again.' The disciples said to him, 'Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?' Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazaros. So the sisters sent to him, saying, 'Lord, he whom you love is ill.' But when Jesus heard it he said, 'This illness is not unto death it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.'

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazaros was ill. Share | Gospel Reading: John 11:1-45 (Lazarus Saturday) At that time, a certain man was ill, Lazaros of Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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