³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

⁵ Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

³⁶ So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

¹⁴ Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.

¹⁵ And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

²⁰ Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

²⁶ Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

²⁷ For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

²³ There was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on Jesus' breast.

¹¹ These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.

¹ Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

² And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.