At last Lazarus fell very sick.
Martha and Mary loved their brother Lazarus very much indeed. They knew that Jesus could make Lazarus well; so they sent a man to tell Jesus that Lazarus was sick.
The man went a great way to look for Jesus. Lazarus grew worse and worse. At last he died. His friends wrapped white cloths round his face, and his arms and his legs, and put him in a great hole, and rolled a stone before it.
Martha and Mary waited and longed for Jesus to come.
Four days passed, and at last Jesus came. Martha and Mary did not think that Jesus would make Lazarus alive again, for he had been dead so long; so they sat upon the ground and cried.
When Martha heard that Jesus was on the road a little way off, she came to Jesus and said, If you had been here, my brother had not died; and even now you could make him alive.
Then Jesus said, Your brother shall rise again.
Yes, said Martha, I know he will rise again at the last day, when all the dead people rise.
Martha was afraid that Jesus would not choose to make Lazarus alive soon; but she knew that he was able to do it.