When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus began to weep.

Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 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." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. 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." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

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." Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

When we remember the life, passion, and resurrection of Jesus, we dwell on Jesus. Even though we sing in hymns, "Who is the guilty?" we may divorce Jesus' experiences from our day-to-day life. Jesus restores Lazarus to life. We see this as affirming God's working through the Son. And Jesus did pray that the crowd would see the Father in what happened. But why did Jesus call Lazarus back? Because he felt sorry for Lazarus? To set the crowd straight about him? Because he wanted Mary and Martha to be impressed? "He was deeply moved" by the grief of Mary. The reason for Jesus' ministry, passion, and resurrection is not to "promote" God or that God has to be satisfied, but because God cares.