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.
anantaraṁ mariyam tasyā bhaginī marthā ca yasmin vaithanīyāgrāme vasatastasmin grāme iliyāsar nāmā pīḍita eka āsīt|
2 Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
yā mariyam prabhuṁ sugandhitelaina marddayitvā svakeśaistasya caraṇau samamārjat tasyā bhrātā sa iliyāsar rogī|
3 So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
aparañca he prabho bhavān yasmin prīyate sa eva pīḍitostīti kathāṁ kathayitvā tasya bhaginyau preṣitavatyau|
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].”
tadā yīśurimāṁ vārttāṁ śrutvākathayata pīḍeyaṁ maraṇārthaṁ na kintvīśvarasya mahimārtham īśvaraputrasya mahimaprakāśārthañca jātā|
5 Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
yīśu ryadyapimarthāyāṁ tadbhaginyām iliyāsari cāprīyata,
6 But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
tathāpi iliyāsaraḥ pīḍāyāḥ kathaṁ śrutvā yatra āsīt tatraiva dinadvayamatiṣṭhat|
7 But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
tataḥ param sa śiṣyānakathayad vayaṁ puna ryihūdīyapradeśaṁ yāmaḥ|
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]”
tataste pratyavadan, he guro svalpadināni gatāni yihūdīyāstvāṁ pāṣāṇai rhantum udyatāstathāpi kiṁ punastatra yāsyasi?
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.
yīśuḥ pratyavadat, ekasmin dine kiṁ dvādaśaghaṭikā na bhavanti? kopi divā gacchan na skhalati yataḥ sa etajjagato dīptiṁ prāpnoti|
10 It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
kintu rātrau gacchan skhalati yato hetostatra dīpti rnāsti|
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.”
imāṁ kathāṁ kathayitvā sa tānavadad, asmākaṁ bandhuḥ iliyāsar nidritobhūd idānīṁ taṁ nidrāto jāgarayituṁ gacchāmi|
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].”
yīśu rmṛtau kathāmimāṁ kathitavān kintu viśrāmārthaṁ nidrāyāṁ kathitavān iti jñātvā śiṣyā akathayan,
13 Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
he guro sa yadi nidrāti tarhi bhadrameva|
14 So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
tadā yīśuḥ spaṣṭaṁ tān vyāharat, iliyāsar amriyata;
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.”
kintu yūyaṁ yathā pratītha tadarthamahaṁ tatra na sthitavān ityasmād yuṣmannimittam āhlāditohaṁ, tathāpi tasya samīpe yāma|
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].”
tadā thomā yaṁ didumaṁ vadanti sa saṅginaḥ śiṣyān avadad vayamapi gatvā tena sārddhaṁ mriyāmahai|
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.
yīśustatropasthāya iliyāsaraḥ śmaśāne sthāpanāt catvāri dināni gatānīti vārttāṁ śrutavān|
18 Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
vaithanīyā yirūśālamaḥ samīpasthā krośaikamātrāntaritā;
19 Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
tasmād bahavo yihūdīyā marthāṁ mariyamañca bhyātṛśokāpannāṁ sāntvayituṁ tayoḥ samīpam āgacchan|
20 When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
marthā yīśorāgamanavārtāṁ śrutvaiva taṁ sākṣād akarot kintu mariyam geha upaviśya sthitā|
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]!
tadā marthā yīśumavādat, he prabho yadi bhavān atrāsthāsyat tarhi mama bhrātā nāmariṣyat|
22 But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
kintvidānīmapi yad īśvare prārthayiṣyate īśvarastad dāsyatīti jāne'haṁ|
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
yīśuravādīt tava bhrātā samutthāsyati|
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
marthā vyāharat śeṣadivase sa utthānasamaye protthāsyatīti jāne'haṁ|
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].
tadā yīśuḥ kathitavān ahameva utthāpayitā jīvayitā ca yaḥ kaścana mayi viśvasiti sa mṛtvāpi jīviṣyati;
26 Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
yaḥ kaścana ca jīvan mayi viśvasiti sa kadāpi na mariṣyati, asyāṁ kathāyāṁ kiṁ viśvasiṣi? (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!”
sāvadat prabho yasyāvataraṇāpekṣāsti bhavān saevābhiṣiktta īśvaraputra iti viśvasimi|
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.”
iti kathāṁ kathayitvā sā gatvā svāṁ bhaginīṁ mariyamaṁ guptamāhūya vyāharat gururupatiṣṭhati tvāmāhūyati ca|
29 When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
kathāmimāṁ śrutvā sā tūrṇam utthāya tasya samīpam agacchat|
30 Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
yīśu rgrāmamadhyaṁ na praviśya yatra marthā taṁ sākṣād akarot tatra sthitavān|
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.
ye yihūdīyā mariyamā sākaṁ gṛhe tiṣṭhantastām asāntvayana te tāṁ kṣipram utthāya gacchantiṁ vilokya vyāharan, sa śmaśāne rodituṁ yāti, ityuktvā te tasyāḥ paścād agacchan|
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!”
yatra yīśuratiṣṭhat tatra mariyam upasthāya taṁ dṛṣṭvā tasya caraṇayoḥ patitvā vyāharat he prabho yadi bhavān atrāsthāsyat tarhi mama bhrātā nāmariṣyat|
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.
yīśustāṁ tasyāḥ saṅgino yihūdīyāṁśca rudato vilokya śokārttaḥ san dīrghaṁ niśvasya kathitavān taṁ kutrāsthāpayata?
34 He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
te vyāharan, he prabho bhavān āgatya paśyatu|
35 Jesus began to cry.
yīśunā kranditaṁ|
36 Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
ataeva yihūdīyā avadan, paśyatāyaṁ tasmin kidṛg apriyata|
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]”
teṣāṁ kecid avadan yondhāya cakṣuṣī dattavān sa kim asya mṛtyuṁ nivārayituṁ nāśaknot?
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.
tato yīśuḥ punarantardīrghaṁ niśvasya śmaśānāntikam agacchat| tat śmaśānam ekaṁ gahvaraṁ tanmukhe pāṣāṇa eka āsīt|
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!”
tadā yīśuravadad enaṁ pāṣāṇam apasārayata, tataḥ pramītasya bhaginī marthāvadat prabho, adhunā tatra durgandho jātaḥ, yatodya catvāri dināni śmaśāne sa tiṣṭhati|
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]?”
tadā yīśuravādīt, yadi viśvasiṣi tarhīśvarasya mahimaprakāśaṁ drakṣyasi kathāmimāṁ kiṁ tubhyaṁ nākathayaṁ?
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].
tadā mṛtasya śmaśānāt pāṣāṇo'pasārite yīśurūrdvvaṁ paśyan akathayat, he pita rmama nevesanam aśṛṇoḥ kāraṇādasmāt tvāṁ dhanyaṁ vadāmi|
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.”
tvaṁ satataṁ śṛṇoṣi tadapyahaṁ jānāmi, kintu tvaṁ māṁ yat prairayastad yathāsmin sthāne sthitā lokā viśvasanti tadartham idaṁ vākyaṁ vadāmi|
43 After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
imāṁ kathāṁ kathayitvā sa proccairāhvayat, he iliyāsar bahirāgaccha|
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].
tataḥ sa pramītaḥ śmaśānavastrai rbaddhahastapādo gātramārjanavāsasā baddhamukhaśca bahirāgacchat| yīśuruditavān bandhanāni mocayitvā tyajatainaṁ|
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]).
mariyamaḥ samīpam āgatā ye yihūdīyalokāstadā yīśoretat karmmāpaśyan teṣāṁ bahavo vyaśvasan,
46 But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
kintu kecidanye phirūśināṁ samīpaṁ gatvā yīśoretasya karmmaṇo vārttām avadan|
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!
tataḥ paraṁ pradhānayājakāḥ phirūśināśca sabhāṁ kṛtvā vyāharan vayaṁ kiṁ kurmmaḥ? eṣa mānavo bahūnyāścaryyakarmmāṇi karoti|
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!”
yadīdṛśaṁ karmma karttuṁ na vārayāmastarhi sarvve lokāstasmin viśvasiṣyanti romilokāścāgatyāsmākam anayā rājadhānyā sārddhaṁ rājyam āchetsyanti|
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]!
tadā teṣāṁ kiyaphānāmā yastasmin vatsare mahāyājakapade nyayujyata sa pratyavadad yūyaṁ kimapi na jānītha;
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.”
samagradeśasya vināśatopi sarvvalokārtham ekasya janasya maraṇam asmākaṁ maṅgalahetukam etasya vivecanāmapi na kurutha|
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.
etāṁ kathāṁ sa nijabuddhyā vyāharad iti na,
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].
kintu yīśūstaddeśīyānāṁ kāraṇāt prāṇān tyakṣyati, diśi diśi vikīrṇān īśvarasya santānān saṁgṛhyaikajātiṁ kariṣyati ca, tasmin vatsare kiyaphā mahāyājakatvapade niyuktaḥ san idaṁ bhaviṣyadvākyaṁ kathitavān|
53 So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
taddinamārabhya te kathaṁ taṁ hantuṁ śaknuvantīti mantraṇāṁ karttuṁ prārebhire|
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].
ataeva yihūdīyānāṁ madhye yīśuḥ saprakāśaṁ gamanāgamane akṛtvā tasmād gatvā prāntarasya samīpasthāyipradeśasyephrāyim nāmni nagare śiṣyaiḥ sākaṁ kālaṁ yāpayituṁ prārebhe|
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].
anantaraṁ yihūdīyānāṁ nistārotsave nikaṭavarttini sati tadutsavāt pūrvvaṁ svān śucīn karttuṁ bahavo janā grāmebhyo yirūśālam nagaram āgacchan,
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?”
yīśoranveṣaṇaṁ kṛtvā mandire daṇḍāyamānāḥ santaḥ parasparaṁ vyāharan, yuṣmākaṁ kīdṛśo bodho jāyate? sa kim utsave'smin atrāgamiṣyati?
sa ca kutrāsti yadyetat kaścid vetti tarhi darśayatu pradhānayājakāḥ phirūśinaśca taṁ dharttuṁ pūrvvam imām ājñāṁ prācārayan|
