{"id":30305,"date":"2026-03-22T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=30305"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:15:04","slug":"there-is-a-time-for-weeping","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=there-is-a-time-for-weeping","title":{"rendered":"There is a time for weeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<\/strong>
\nAll<\/strong> Glory to you, O Lord<\/p>\n

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her
\nbrother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, \u2018Lord, he whom you love is ill.\u2019 But when Jesus heard it, he said, \u2018This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God\u2019s
\nglory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.\u2019 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days
\nlonger in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, \u2018Let us go to Judea again.\u2019 The disciples said to him, \u2018Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?\u2019 Jesus answered, \u2018Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.\u2019 After saying this, he told them, \u2018Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.\u2019 The disciples said to him, \u2018Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.\u2019 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, \u2018Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.\u2019 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples, \u2018Let us also go, that we may die with him.\u2019 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, \u2018Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018Your brother will rise again.\u2019 Martha said to him, \u2018I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?\u2019 She said to him, \u2018Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.\u2019
\nWhen she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, \u2018The Teacher is here and is calling for you.\u2019 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went
\nto him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up
\nquickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, \u2018Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.\u2019 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, \u2018Where have you laid him?\u2019 They said to him, \u2018Lord, come and see.\u2019 Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, \u2018See how he loved him!\u2019 But some of them said,
\n\u2018Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?\u2019 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying
\nagainst it. 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 Jesus said to her, \u2018Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?\u2019 So they took away the stone.  And Jesus looked upwards and said, \u2018Father, I thank you for having heard me. 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 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, \u2018Lazarus, come out!\u2019 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  Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.  <\/p>\n

This is the Gospel of theLord
\nAll<\/strong> Praise to you, O Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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