Raising of Lazarus

"Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, 'Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.'
When Jesus heard that, He said, 'This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. . .
After that He said to them [his disciples], 'Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.'
Then His disciples said, 'Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.'
However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
Then Jesus said to them plainly, 'Lazarus is dead.
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe.
Nevertheless let us go to him.'
So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. . .
Then Martha,as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

Then Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.'
Jesus said to her, ' Your brother will rise again.'
Martha said to Him, 'I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.'
Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
Do you believe this?'
She said to Him, 'Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.'
. . .When Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, 'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.'
Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

And He said, 'Where have you laid him?'
They said to Him, 'Lord, come and see.'

Jesus wept.

Then the Jews said, 'See how He loved him!'
And some of them said, 'Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?'

Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb.
It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
Jesus said, 'Take away the stone.'

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, 'Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.'

Jesus said to her, 'Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?'
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.
And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, 'Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.'

Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth!'
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, 'Loose him and let him go.'"
John 11:1-45

Jesus said from the beginning that his sickness was not unto death.

Jesus told the disciples that Lazarus was dead and they were going to go to him.

Jesus told Martha that her brother will rise again.

Jesus reminded Martha that he who lives and believes in Him shall never die. He got Martha to believe by asking her if she believed Him.

Martha released her faith and told Jesus that she did believe.

Jesus had the stone removed from the tomb so Lazarus could come out.

Then Jesus thanked God that He heard Him and always heard Him.

He then called Lazarus to come out and for the others to loose him.

Lazarus was alive and free.