Show Don't Tell: John 11:1-16

Instead of saying "Jesus heard Lazarus was sick but delayed," count the days. Now a man named Lazarus is sick. He is from Bethany, the village of Mary and Martha. This Mary is the one who pours perfume on the Lord and wipes his feet with her hair. So the sisters send word to Jesus: "Lord, the one you love is sick." When he hears this, Jesus says: "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." Now Jesus loves Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he hears that Lazarus is sick—he stays where he is two more days. Love expressed through delay. Then: "Let us go back to Judea." The disciples: "Rabbi, a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?" Jesus answers: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe." Thomas (called Didymus) says to the rest of the disciples: "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Courage or fatalism—but he goes.