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Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/em><\/h2>\n

Glory to you, O Lord.<\/em><\/h2>\n

17 <\/sup>When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18<\/sup>Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19<\/sup>and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20<\/sup>When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. 21<\/sup>Martha said to Jesus, \u2018Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22<\/sup>But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.\u201923<\/sup>Jesus said to her, \u2018Your brother will rise again.\u2019 24<\/sup>Martha said to him, \u2018I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.\u2019 25<\/sup>Jesus said to her, \u2018I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,26<\/sup>and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?\u201927<\/sup>She said to him, \u2018Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.\u2019<\/p>\n

34<\/sup>He said, \u2018Where have you laid him?\u2019 They said to him, \u2018Lord, come and see.\u2019 35<\/sup>Jesus began to weep. 36<\/sup>So the Jews said, \u2018See how he loved him!\u2019 37<\/sup>But some of them said, \u2018Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?\u2019<\/p>\n

38<\/sup> Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39<\/sup>Jesus said, \u2018Take away the stone.\u2019 Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, \u2018Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days.\u2019 40<\/sup>Jesus said to her, \u2018Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?\u2019 41<\/sup>So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, \u2018Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42<\/sup>I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.\u2019 43<\/sup>When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, \u2018Lazarus, come out!\u2019 44<\/sup>The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, \u2018Unbind him, and let him go.\u2019<\/p>\n

45<\/sup> Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John Glory to you, O Lord. 17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[322],"ctc_sermon_series":[356,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[339],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-23970","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-john","ctc_sermon_series-lent","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-dave-adams-llm","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23972,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23970\/revisions\/23972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=23970"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=23970"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=23970"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=23970"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=23970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}