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| "The Resurrection of Lazarus" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Ezekiel
37: 12 - 14
12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold
I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O
my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.
13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your
sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my
people:
14
And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall
make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord
have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God.
PSALM:
Psalms 130:
1 - 8
1
Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:
2
Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplication.
3
If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.
4
For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy
law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:
5
My soul hath hoped in the Lord.
6
From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.
7
Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful
redemption.
8
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
SECOND
READING: Romans
8: 8 - 11
8
And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9
But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, he is none of his.
10
And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but
the spirit liveth, because of justification.
11
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in
you; he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also
your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
GOSPEL:
John 11:
1 - 45 OR
John 11:
3 - 7, 17, 20 - 27, 33 - 45
1
Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the
town of Mary and Martha her sister.
2
(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his
feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3
His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou
lovest is sick.
4
And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death,
but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.
6
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in
the same place two days.
7
Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea
again.
8
The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone
thee: and goest thou thither again?
9
Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk
in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this
world:
10
But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not
in him.
11
These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our
friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
12
His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13
But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the
repose of sleep.
14
Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
15
And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, that you may
believe: but let us go to him.
16
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17
Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in
the grave.
18
(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
19
And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
concerning their brother.
20
Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to
meet him: but Mary sat at home.
21
Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
22
But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will
give it thee.
23
Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
24
Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the
resurrection at the last day.
25
Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
26
And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for
ever. Believest thou this?
27
She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the
Son of the living God, who art come into this world.
28
And when she had said these things, she went, and called her sister
Mary secretly, saying: The master is come, and calleth for thee.
29
She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly, and cometh to him.
30
For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that
place where Martha had met him.
31
The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house, and comforted
her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out,
followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.
32
When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell
down at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
33
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were
come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself,
34
And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and
see.
35
And Jesus wept.
36
The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.
37
But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man
born blind, have caused that this man should not die?
38
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre.
Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.
39
Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was
dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of
four days.
40
Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou
shalt see the glory of God?
41
They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes
said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.
42
And I knew that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who
stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent
me.
43
When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus,
come forth.
44
And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands
with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus
said to them: Loose him, and let him go.
45
Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had
seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.
OR
3
His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou
lovest is sick.
4
And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death,
but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.
6
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in
the same place two days.
7
Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea
again.
17
Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in
the grave.
20
Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to
meet him: but Mary sat at home.
21
Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
22
But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will
give it thee.
23
Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
24
Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the
resurrection at the last day.
25
Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
26
And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for
ever. Believest thou this?
27
She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the
Son of the living God, who art come into this world.
33
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were
come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself,
34
And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and
see.
35
And Jesus wept.
36
The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.
37
But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man
born blind, have caused that this man should not die?
38
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre.
Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.
39
Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was
dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of
four days.
40
Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou
shalt see the glory of God?
41
They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes
said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.
42
And I knew that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who
stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent
me.
43
When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus,
come forth.
44
And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands
with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus
said to them: Loose him, and let him go.
45
Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had
seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.
