In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah; her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.
Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.
Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
[Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So] the sisters (of Lazarus) sent word to Jesus saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.
Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he?
I knew their plot because the Lord informed me; at that time you, O Lord, showed me their doings.
