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New Living Translation (NLT)

John 10
⁴⁰ He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
⁴¹ And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.”
⁴² And many who were there believed in Jesus.
John 11
¹ A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
² This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.
³ So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
⁴ But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”
⁵ So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
⁶ he stayed where he was for the next two days.
⁷ Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
⁸ But his disciples objected. “Rabbi,” they said, “only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”