John Chapter 11

Question 1

John 11:1

Answer 1

Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Question 2

John 11:2

Answer 2

This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.

Question 3

John 11:3

Answer 3

So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

Question 4

John 11:4

Answer 4

When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

Question 5

John 11:5

Answer 5

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Question 6

John 11:6

Answer 6

Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.

Question 7

John 11:7

Answer 7

Then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

Question 8

John 11:8

Answer 8

“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?”

Question 9

John 11:9

Answer 9

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world’s light.

Question 10

John 11:10

Answer 10

It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light.”

Question 11

John 11:11

Answer 11

After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

Question 12

John 11:12

Answer 12

His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”

Question 13

John 11:13

Answer 13

Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

Question 14

John 11:14

Answer 14

So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

Question 15

John 11:15

Answer 15

and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

Question 16

John 11:16

Answer 16

Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Question 17

John 11:17

Answer 17

On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

Question 18

John 11:18

Answer 18

Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

Question 19

John 11:19

Answer 19

and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.

Question 20

John 11:20

Answer 20

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

Question 21

John 11:21

Answer 21

“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Question 22

John 11:22

Answer 22

But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

Question 23

John 11:23

Answer 23

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Question 24

John 11:24

Answer 24

Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Question 25

John 11:25

Answer 25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;

Question 26

John 11:26

Answer 26

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

Question 27

John 11:27

Answer 27

“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

Question 28

John 11:28

Answer 28

And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.”

Question 29

John 11:29

Answer 29

When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Question 30

John 11:30

Answer 30

Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

Question 31

John 11:31

Answer 31

When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

Question 32

John 11:32

Answer 32

When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Question 33

John 11:33

Answer 33

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Question 34

John 11:34

Answer 34

“Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

Question 35

John 11:35

Answer 35

Jesus wept.

Question 36

John 11:36

Answer 36

Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

Question 37

John 11:37

Answer 37

But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

Question 38

John 11:38

Answer 38

Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

Question 39

John 11:39

Answer 39

“Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

Question 40

John 11:40

Answer 40

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

Question 41

John 11:41

Answer 41

So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

Question 42

John 11:42

Answer 42

I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Question 43

John 11:43

Answer 43

When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

Question 44

John 11:44

Answer 44

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Question 45

John 11:45

Answer 45

Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.

Question 46

John 11:46

Answer 46

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Question 47

John 11:47

Answer 47

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many miraculous signs.

Question 48

John 11:48

Answer 48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Question 49

John 11:49

Answer 49

Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all!

Question 50

John 11:50

Answer 50

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

Question 51

John 11:51

Answer 51

He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,

Question 52

John 11:52

Answer 52

and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.

Question 53

John 11:53

Answer 53

So from that day on they plotted to take his life.

Question 54

John 11:54

Answer 54

Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

Question 55

John 11:55

Answer 55

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.

Question 56

John 11:56

Answer 56

They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple area they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the Feast at all?”

Question 57

John 11:57

Answer 57

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.