Session 5 · Patience

Galatians 5:22-23

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

John 11:1-44

¹Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

²(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

³So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

⁴When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

⁶So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

⁷Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

⁸The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

⁹Jesus replied, “Are there not 12 hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles because the light is not in him.”

¹¹After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

¹²Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

¹⁴Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

¹⁵and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

¹⁶So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

¹⁷When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

¹⁸(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

¹⁹so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

²⁰So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

²¹Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²²But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

²³Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.”

²⁴Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

²⁶and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

²⁸And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

²⁹So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

³⁰(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

³¹Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³²Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

³⁴He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!”

³⁷But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

³⁸Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell because he has been buried four days.”

⁴⁰Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

⁴²I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

⁴³When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

Galatians 5:22-23

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

John 11:1-44

¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

²It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

³The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

⁴But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

⁶When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

⁸The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”

⁹Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

¹¹He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

¹²The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

¹⁴So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

¹⁷So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

¹⁹Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

²¹Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

²²Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.”

²⁹When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

³¹Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

³²Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

³³When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

³⁴and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

³⁷Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

⁴²I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

Galatians 5:22-23

John 11:1-44