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, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being 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 the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
3 The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus – ‘Master, your friend is ill’;
So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."
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.”
Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order 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.
When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.
7 Then, after that, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us return to Judaea."
8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the authorities there were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?”
"Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and do you think of 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;
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
10 but, if they walk about at night, they stumble, because they have not the light.”
But if a man walks by night, he does 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 this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."
12 “If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will get well,” said the disciples.
"Master," said the disciples, "if he is 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 He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.
14 Then he said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead;
So then He told them plainly,
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.”
"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But 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.”
"Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."
17 When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.
On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.
18 Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,
Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;
19 a number of the people had come there to comfort Martha and Mary because of their brother’s death.
and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.
Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.
21 “Master,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.
22 Even now, I know that God will grant you whatever you ask him.”
And even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you."
23 “Your brother will rise to life,” said Jesus.
"Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.
24 “I know that he will,” replied Martha, “in the resurrection at the Last day.”
"I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at 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;
"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;
and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, 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.”
"Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come 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.”
After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."
29 As soon as Mary heard that, she got up quickly, and went to meet him.
So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.
30 Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at 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 the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud 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!”
Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, 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.
Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,
34 “Where have you buried him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they answered.
though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.
35 Jesus burst into tears.
Jesus wept.
36 “How he must have loved him!” the people exclaimed;
"See how dear he held him," said the Jews.
37 but some of them said, “Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?”
But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"
38 Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.
Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of 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.”
"Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died."
40 “Didn’t I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that, if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?”
"Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall 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 removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard 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 have sent me as your messenger.”
I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."
43 Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus! Come out!”
After speaking thus, He called out in 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 hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."
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.
Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews--namely those who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds--became believers in Him;
46 Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.
though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He 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?
Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.
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 in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation."
49 One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,
But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it.
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 reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."
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 –
It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to 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 for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.
53 So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.
So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him 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.
Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there 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.
The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, 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 therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"
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 High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.
