'Out of the depths, I cry to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice!'

'Lord, the man you love is ill.'

'Jesus loved Martha and Mary and their brother, Lazarus.  Yet, when he learned that Lazarus was ill,

'If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that even now,

whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.'

‘Your brother will rise again.'

'I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.'

'I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live,

and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.  Do you believe this?’

‘Yes Lord, 'I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,

the one who was to come into this world.'

Then, Mary came to Jesus, threw herself at his feet, and said,

‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died.’

Jesus said in great distress, with a sigh that came straight from the heart,

‘Where have you put him?'  Jesus wept.

Still sighing, Jesus reached the tomb; it was a cave with a stone to close the opening.

'Take the stone away.'

'Lord, by now he will smell; this is the fourth day.'

'Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?'

So they took away the stone. Jesus cried in a loud voice

‘Lazarus, here! Come out!'

The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with clothes and another cloth around his face.

Many of the Jews who had come to visit Martha and Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him.