(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest.
But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things,
Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”
Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!”
So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.
The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
