John 11
1 Now a man named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill; he belonged to the same village as Mary and her sister Martha.
Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.
It was Mary who anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus – ‘Master, your friend is ill’;
The sisters then sent for Jesus, saying, “Lord, see, he whom you love is sick.”
4 and, when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it.”
When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but instead it is for the glory of God so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 Yet, when he heard of the illness of Lazarus, he still stayed two days in the place where he was.
So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed two more days in the place where he was.
7 Then, after that, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
Then after this, he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the authorities there were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?”
The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, right now the Jews are trying to stone you, and you are going back there again?”
9 “Are not there twelve hours in the day?” answered Jesus. “If someone walks about in the daytime, they don’t stumble, because they can see the light of the sun;
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of light in a day? If someone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
10 but, if they walk about at night, they stumble, because they have not the light.”
However, if he walks at night, he will stumble because the light is not in him.”
11 And, when he had said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may wake him.”
He said these things, and after these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake him out of sleep.”
12 “If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will get well,” said the disciples.
The disciples therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13 But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the sleep of resting.
14 Then he said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead;
Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him.”
I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there so that you may believe. Let us go to him.”
16 At this, Thomas, who was called ‘The Twin,’ said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go so that we may die with Jesus.”
17 When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.
When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
19 a number of the people had come there to comfort Martha and Mary because of their brother’s death.
Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them about their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.
Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21 “Master,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 Even now, I know that God will grant you whatever you ask him.”
Even now, I know that whatever you ask from God, he will give to you.”
23 “Your brother will rise to life,” said Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 “I know that he will,” replied Martha, “in the resurrection at the Last day.”
Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25 “I am the resurrection and the life,” said Jesus. “He who believes in me will live, though he die;
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he dies, will live;
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (aiōn g165)
27 “Yes Master,” she answered. “I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
28 After saying this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, and whispered, “The teacher is here, and is asking for you.”
When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary privately. She said, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29 As soon as Mary heard that, she got up quickly, and went to meet him.
When she heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
31 So the people, who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
So when the Jews, who were with her in the house and who were comforting her, saw Mary getting up quickly and going out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. “Master,” she exclaimed, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”
When Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and was troubled;
34 “Where have you buried him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they answered.
he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus burst into tears.
Jesus wept.
36 “How he must have loved him!” the people exclaimed;
Then the Jews said, “See how much he loved Lazarus!”
37 but some of them said, “Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?”
But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of a blind man, also have made this man not die?”
38 Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.
Then Jesus again, being deeply moved in himself, went to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 “Move the stone away,” said Jesus. “Master,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time the smell must be offensive, for this is the fourth day since his death.”
Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of Lazarus, the one who had died, said to Jesus, “Lord, by this time the body will be decaying, for he has been dead for four days.”
40 “Didn’t I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that, if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?”
Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that, if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard my prayer;
So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
42 I know that you always hear me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that you has sent me as your messenger.”
I knew that you always listen to me, but it is because of the crowd that is standing around me that I said this, so that they may believe that you have sent me.”
43 Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus! Come out!”
After he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding-sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. “Set him free,” said Jesus, “and let him go.”
The dead man came out; his feet and hands were bound with cloths, and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
45 In consequence of this, many of the people, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.
Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.
But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said, “What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?
Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council together and said, “What will we do? This man does many signs.
48 If we allow him to continue as we are doing, everyone will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our Temple and our nation.”
If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him; the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,
However, a certain man among them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing.
50 “You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one person should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed.”
You do not consider that it is better for you that one man dies for the people than that the whole nation perishes.”
51 Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation –
Now this he said not from himself. Instead, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
52 And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the children of God now scattered far and wide.
and not only for the nation, but so that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered together into one.
53 So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.
So from that day onward they planned how to put Jesus to death.
54 In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the people any more, but left and went into the country bordering on the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
No longer did Jesus walk openly among the Jews, but he departed from there into the country near to the wilderness into a town called Ephraim. There he stayed with the disciples.
55 But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their purification, before the Festival began.
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
56 So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts, “What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?”
They were looking for Jesus, and speaking one with another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the festival?”
57 The chief priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if anyone learned where Jesus was, he should give information, so that they might arrest him.
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given an order that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might seize him.
