The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus--'Master, your friend is ill';
When he saw her, the Master was moved with compassion for her, and he said to her: "Do not weep."
Now a man named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill; he belonged to the same village as Mary and her sister Martha.
And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."
This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.
"Master," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
"How he must have loved him!" the Jews exclaimed;
Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.
"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.
Next to Jesus, in the place on his right hand, was one of his disciples, whom he loved.
Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Thophimus ill at Miletus.
'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.