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Deuteronomy Chapter 11 (NRSVCE)
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1 You shall love the LORD your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.
2 Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the discipline of the LORD your God), but it is you who must acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,
3 his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea [1] flow over them as they pursued you, so that the LORD has destroyed them to this day;
5 what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their company;
7 for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the LORD did.
8 Keep, then, this entire commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are crossing over to occupy,
9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate by foot like a vegetable garden.
11 But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys, watered by rain from the sky,
12 a land that the LORD your God looks after. The eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13 If you will only heed his every commandment [2] that I am commanding you today — loving the LORD your God, and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul —
14 then he [3] will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil;
15 and he [4] will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.
16 Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them,
17 for then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.
18 You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem [5] on your forehead.
19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22 If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,
23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the Western Sea.
25 No one will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.
26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.
29 When the LORD your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak [6] of Moreh.
31 When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and when you occupy it and live in it,
32 you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
34 He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus began to weep.
36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place [8] and our nation.”
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God.
53 So from that day on they planned to put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
56 They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus [9] was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
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