So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”
As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.”
Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,
You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am.
One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining next to him;
Erastus remained in Corinth; Trophimus I left ill in Miletus.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.