Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.
But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.