For your sake, I’m glad I wasn’t there, because now you’ll believe. Let’s go to him.”
So I put up with everything for the good of God’s chosen people, so that they also can be saved through Christ Jesus, with glory that will last forever.
I’m making myself holy for them so that they too can be made holy by the truth.
Jesus told them, “That voice was for your benefit, not mine.
When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory, so that God’s Son can receive glory because of it.”
What Jesus did at Cana in Galilee was the first of his signs showing his glory. Because of it, his disciples believed in him.
I’m writing these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you’ll know you have eternal life.
All this is for your benefit, so that grace will reach more and more people, and they will become more and more thankful and give glory to God.
So then he came right out and told them, “Lazarus is dead.
Then Thomas, who was also called Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, “Let’s go along, so we can die with him.”