011:020 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming,"
went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.
011:021 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here,"
she said, "my brother would not have died.
011:022 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for,
God will give you."
011:023 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.
011:024 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection,
on the last day."
011:025 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes
in me, even if he has died, he shall live;
011:026 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never,
never die. Do you believe this?"
011:027 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are
the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
011:028 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately,
telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."
011:029 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.
011:030 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still
at the place where Martha had met Him.
011:031 So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her,
when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out,
followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb
to weep aloud there.
011:032 Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His
feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother
would not have died."
011:033 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping
who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion
of His spirit,