John 11
1 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters Mary and Martha.
Now a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick.
2 Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
(It was the Mary who [later] anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped His feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus: “Lord, your close friend is sick.”
So the sisters sent to Him saying, “Lord, please, the one you love is sick!”
4 When Jesus heard the news he said, “The end result of this sickness will not be death. Through this God's glory will be revealed so that the Son of God may be glorified.”
Upon hearing it Jesus said, “This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Even though Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
6 and had heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained where he was for two more days.
So, when He heard that he was sick He stayed where He was two more days!
7 Then he told the disciples, “Let's return to Judea.”
Then after this He says to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
8 The disciples replied, “Rabbi, just a few days ago the Jews were trying to stone you. Do you really want to go back there now?”
The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and you are going back there?”
9 “Aren't there twelve hours in a day?” Jesus replied.
Jesus answered: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 “If you walk during the day you don't stumble because you can see where you're going by the light of this world. But if you walk during the night you stumble because you have no light.”
But if anyone walks in the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”
11 After telling them this, he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm going to go there and wake him up!”
Having said these things He says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going in order to awaken him.”
12 The disciples said, “Lord, if he's sleeping then he'll get better.”
His disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping he will get well.”
13 Jesus had been referring to the death of Lazarus, but the disciples thought he meant actual sleep.
But Jesus had spoken of his death, while they thought He was talking about natural sleep.
14 So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
So then Jesus said to them plainly: “Lazarus died.
15 For your sake I'm glad I wasn't there, because now you will be able to trust in me. Let's go and see him.”
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples, “Let's go too so we can die with him.”
Then Thomas (called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, “Let's us go too, so that we may die with Him.”
17 When he arrived, Jesus learned that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days.
So when Jesus had come, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
18 Bethany was just two miles from Jerusalem,
(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,
19 and many Jews had come to console Mary and Martha at the loss of their brother.
and many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.)
20 When Martha found out that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting at home.
21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you'd been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
Then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died.
22 But I'm certain that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
23 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day,” Martha answered.
Martha says to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who trust in me will live, even though they die.
Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;
and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die. Do you believe this?” (aiōn g165)
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one expected to come to this world.”
She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”
28 When she had said this, she went and told her sister Mary in private, “The Teacher's here, and asking to see you.”
Having said these things she went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling you!”
29 As soon as she heard, Mary quickly got up and went to see him.
Upon hearing it she gets up quickly and goes to Him.
30 Jesus hadn't arrived in the village yet. He was still at the place where Martha had met him.
(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
31 The Jews who had been comforting Mary in the home saw how she'd got up quickly and left. So they followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep there.
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”)
32 When Mary arrived at the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you'd been here, my brother wouldn't have died.”
Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, upon seeing Him she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died!”
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying as well, he was very troubled and upset.
So when Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked. They replied, “Lord, come and see.”
And He said, “Where have you put him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Then Jesus cried too.
Jesus wept.
36 “See how much he loved him,” the Jews said.
So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 But some of them said, “If he could open the eyes of a blind man, couldn't he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
But some of them said, “Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also kept this one from dying?”
38 Very troubled, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a large stone placed at the entrance.
Then, groaning within Himself again, Jesus arrived at the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 “Remove the stone,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man's sister, said, “Lord, by now there will be a terrible smell, for he's been dead for four days.”
Jesus says, “Remove the stone!” Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks; it's been four days!”
40 “Didn't I tell you that if you trusted me you would see God's glory?” Jesus replied.
Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they removed the stone. Jesus looked heavenwards, and said, “Father, thank you for listening to me.
Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me.
42 I know you always listen to me. I said this because of the crowd standing here so that they will believe that you sent me.”
I know that You always hear me, but I spoke for the sake of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent me.”
43 After saying this, Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
Upon saying these things He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of linen, and with a cloth around his face. “Unbind him and set him free,” Jesus told them.
And out the deceased came! Bound hand and foot with bandages, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Loose him and let him go.”
45 Consequently many of the Jews who had come to comfort Mary and who saw what Jesus did put their trust in him.
So many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed into Him.
46 But others went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the ruling council. “What shall we do?” they asked. “This man is doing many miracles.
Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said: “What can we do? Because this man performs many miraculous signs;
48 If we allow him to continue, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will destroy both the Temple and our status as a nation.”
if we let him go on like this everybody will believe into him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation!”
49 “You don't understand anything!” said Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
But one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: “You know nothing at all!
50 “Can't you see that it's better for you that one man die for the people so that the whole nation won't be destroyed?”
Nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people, rather than the whole nation perish!”
51 He didn't say this on his own behalf, but as chief priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation.
(Now he did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;
52 And this was not just for the Jewish nation, but for all the scattered children of God so that they might be gathered together and be made into one.
and not only on behalf of the nation, but also to gather into one all the scattered children of God.)
53 From that time on they plotted how they might kill Jesus.
So from that day on they really plotted to kill Him.
54 So Jesus did not travel openly among the Jews but went to a town called Ephraim in the region near the desert and stayed there with his disciples.
Therefore Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with His disciples.
55 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover, and many people went from the countryside to Jerusalem to purify themselves for the Passover.
Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
56 People were looking for Jesus and talking about him as they stood in the Temple. “What do you think?” they asked each other. “Isn't he coming to the festival?”
So they were looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they were saying to each other, “What do you think—that he won't come to the feast at all?”
57 The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it so they could arrest him.
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had together issued an edict that if anyone knew where He was he should report it, so they could arrest Him.
