John 11
1 [One time] there was a man whose name was Lazarus who was [very] sick. He lived in Bethany [village], where his [older] sisters Mary and Martha also lived.
NOW there was a sick man, Lazarus, of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
(It was the Mary who had anointed the Lord with the balm, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 [They hoped that Jesus would come], but when Jesus heard the message, he said, “His being sick will not end in his dying. Instead, it will result in [people realizing] how great God is, and that I, God’s son, may be honored {that people may honor me, God’s son}, because of [what I will do].”
When Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not for death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
5 Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
Then, though he heard he was ill, yet notwithstanding he abode in the same place where he was two days.
7 But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
But after that he saith to his disciples, Let us go again into Judea.
8 We said, “Teacher, just a short while ago the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] wanted to [kill you by] throwing stones at you. So ([we think that you should not] go back there again!/[are you sure that you want to] go back there again?) [RHQ]”
The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews have just now sought to stone thee; and art thou going thither again?
9 [To show us that nothing bad could happen to him until the time that God had chosen] [MET], Jesus replied, “There are [RHQ] twelve hours in the daytime, [which is enough time to do what God wants us to do]. People who walk in the daytime will not stumble [over things they cannot see], because they see things by the light from the sun.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because he seeth the light of this world.
10 It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light with him.
11 After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”
These things said he: and after that he saith to them, Our friend Lazarus is asleep; but I go to waken him up.
12 So we said to him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. [So you do not need to risk your life by going there].”
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he is asleep, he will recover.
13 Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they apprehended that he spake of taking rest in sleep.
14 So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
Then Jesus therefore told them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 But for your sake I am glad that I was not there [when he died], because I want you to believe [more firmly that I] ([am the Messiah/came from God]). So now, [instead of staying here], let’s go to him.”
And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe; but let us go to him.
16 Then Thomas, who was {whom they} called ‘The Twin’, said to the rest of us disciples, “Let’s all go, so that we may die with Jesus [when his enemies kill him].”
Then said Thomas, (called Didymus, the twin, ) to his fellow-disciples, Let us go too, that we may die with him.
17 When we arrived [close to Bethany], someone told Jesus that Lazarus [had died and had been buried and his body had] been in the tomb for four days.
Then Jesus, when he came; found that he had already lain in the tomb four days.
18 Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
and many of the Jews had come with the women who were about Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, met him: but Mary sat in the house.
21 When Martha [got to where Jesus was], she said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died [because you would have healed him]!
And Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
But even now I know, that whatsoever things thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
Jesus saith to her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
Martha saith to him, I know that he shall rise at the resurrection in the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the one who [enables people to] become alive again and who [causes people to] live [eternally]. Those who believe in me, even if they die, will live [again].
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
and every one who is alive, and believeth in me, shall never die to eternity. Believest thou this? (aiōn g165)
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord! I believe that you are the Messiah, (the Son of God/the man who is also God). You are the one [God promised to send] into the world!”
She saith to him, Yes, Lord I believe that thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, who cometh into the world.
28 After she said that, she returned [to the house] and took her [younger] sister, Mary, aside and said to her, “The Teacher is close [to our village], and he wants to talk to you.”
So when she had thus spoken, she went away, and called her sister Mary privately, saying, The Master is near at hand, and calleth for thee.
29 When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
As soon as she heard it, she rose hastily, and came to him.
30 Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was on the spot where Martha had met him.
31 The Jews who were in the house with Mary, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go outside. So they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb [where they had buried Lazarus], in order to cry there.
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, observing Mary, that she rose up hastily, and went out, followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb, to weep there.
32 When Mary got to where Jesus was and saw him, she prostrated herself at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my [younger] brother would not have died!”
When therefore Mary was come where Jesus was, beholding him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died!
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and saw that the Jews who had come with her were also crying, he was very angry [that Satan had caused Lazarus to die] (OR, very troubled) and disturbed in his spirit.
When Jesus then saw her weeping, and all the Jews who came with her lamenting, he groaned in spirit, and was himself greatly agitated:
34 He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
and he said, Where have ye laid him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus began to cry.
Jesus wept.
36 Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
Then said the Jews, Behold, how he loved him!
37 But some others said, “He enabled a blind man to see. So (he should have been able to [heal this man so that] he did not die!/why did he not [heal this man so that] he did not die?) [RHQ]”
But some of them said, Could not this man, who openeth the eyes of the blind, have caused that this person should not have died?
38 Within himself Jesus was again very angry [about Lazarus dying] (OR, very troubled). He came to the tomb. It was a cave. The entrance had been covered with a large stone.
Then Jesus again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. It was an excavation, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone!” Martha, [who, as I mentioned before, was an older] sister of the man who had died, said, “Lord, his [body] has been [in the tomb] for four days, so now there will be a bad smell!”
Jesus saith, Remove the stone. The sister of the deceased, Martha, said to him, Lord, he is by this time putrid: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus said to her, “I told [RHQ] you that if you believed [in] ([me/what I can do]), you would see how great God is! Have [you forgotten that]?”
Jesus saith unto her, Did I not tell thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up [toward heaven] and said, “My Father, I thank you that you heard me [when I prayed about this earlier].
Then they removed the stone where the deceased was lying. And Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me!
42 I know that you always hear me [when I pray]. But instead [of just praying silently], I said that for the sake of the people who are standing here. I want them to believe that you sent me.”
And I knew that thou always dost hear me: but for the sake of the multitude standing by I spake, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
And when he had thus spoken, with a loud voice he cried, Lazarus, come forth!
44 The man who [had been] dead came out! The strips of cloth were still wrapped around his [hands and feet], and a cloth was still around his face, [but he came out]! Jesus said to them, “Take off the cloths so that he can walk easily!” [So they did that].
And the deceased came forth, his feet and his hands wrapped with the linen swathes; and his face bound round with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go!
45 As a result, many of the Jews who had come to [see] Mary and who had seen what Jesus did, believed that he ([was the Messiah/had come from God]).
Then many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what Jesus had done, believed on him.
46 But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered all the members of the [Jewish] Council together. They started saying [to each other], “What are we going to do [about Jesus]? He is performing many miracles!
The chief priests and Pharisees therefore called the sanhedrim together, and said, What are we about? for this man is doing many miracles.
48 If we allow him to keep [doing this], everyone will believe (in him/that he [is the Messiah]), [and they will make him their king]. Then the Roman [army] will come and destroy our Temple and our whole nation of Israel!”
If we suffer him to go on thus, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation.
49 One of the [Jewish Council] members was Caiaphas. He was the Jewish high priest that year. [Hinting that they should get rid of Jesus], he said to them, “You [talk as though you] do not know anything [HYP]!
Then one particular person of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing,
50 You do not realize that it would be much better for us if one man died for the sake of the people rather than that [the Romans kill] all the [people of our Jewish] nation.”
nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation be not destroyed.
51 He said that, not because he thought of it himself. Instead, since he was the high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the whole [Jewish] nation.
And this he spake not from himself: but being the high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
52 But he was also prophesying that Jesus would die, not just for the Jews, but for all the people living in other lands who [would belong] to God, in order that he would unite [all of them into] one [group].
and not for that nation only, but that he should collect into one body the children of God wherever dispersed.
53 So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
Then from that day they consulted together how they might kill him.
54 Because of that, Jesus no longer traveled around publicly among the Jewish people. Instead, he left [Jerusalem, along] with us disciples, and went to a village called Ephraim, in an area near the desolate region. We stayed there [for a while].
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but went thence into the country bordering on the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he abode with his disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover [celebration], many [Jews] went up to Jerusalem from other places in the country. They went there to perform the rituals to make themselves acceptable [to God] before the Passover [celebration started].
Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, in order to purify themselves.
56 The Jewish chief priests and Pharisees issued an order that if anyone found out where Jesus was, that person should report it to them, in order that they could seize him. [So the people thought that Jesus would] probably [not dare to come to the celebration]. But they kept looking for him, and as they were standing in the Temple [courtyard] they were saying to each other, “What do you think? He will not come to the celebration, will he?”
Then they sought for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any person knew where he was, they should declare it, that they might apprehend him.
