Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”
The Father himself loves you because you have loved me. And he loves you because you have believed that I came from God.
And the Jews said, “Look! He loved Lazarus very much!”
They answered, “But Teacher, those Jews there tried to stone you to death. That was only a short time ago. Now you want to go back there?”
While Jesus and his followers were traveling, he went into a town, and a woman named Martha let him stay at her house.
But her sister Martha was busy doing all the work that had to be done. Martha went in and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are getting worried and upset about too many things.
There was a man named Lazarus who was sick. He lived in the town of Bethany, where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
So Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, “Lord, your dear friend Lazarus is sick.”
So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days
