John 11
1 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister —
2 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing —
3 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."
therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, 'Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
4 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."
and Jesus having heard, said, 'This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
6 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.
when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
7 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us return to Judaea."
then after this, he saith to the disciples, 'We may go to Judea again;'
8 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?"
the disciples say to him, 'Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'
9 "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.
Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;
10 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."
and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
11 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."
These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'
12 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."
therefore said his disciples, 'Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.
but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
14 So then He told them plainly,
Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, 'Lazarus hath died;
15 "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."
and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe, ) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
16 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."
therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go — we also, that we may die with him,'
17 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.
Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;
And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
19 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.
and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
20 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.
Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
21 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.
Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
22 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you."
but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'
23 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.
Jesus saith to her, 'Thy brother shall rise again.'
24 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day."
Martha saith to him, 'I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'
25 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;
Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
26 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?" (aiōn g165)
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die — to the age; (aiōn g165)
27 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
28 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."
And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, 'The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'
29 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.
she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
31 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.
the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying — 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'
32 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."
Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'
33 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,
34 though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.
'Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, 'Sir, come and see;'
35 Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
36 "See how dear he held him," said the Jews.
The Jews, therefore, said, 'Lo, how he was loving him!'
37 But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"
and certain of them said, 'Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
38 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.
Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
39 "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."
Jesus saith, 'Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died — Martha — saith to him, 'Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'
40 "Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?"
Jesus saith to her, 'Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'
41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.
They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, 'Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;
42 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."
and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'
43 After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."
And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, 'Lazarus, come forth;'
44 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."
and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, 'Loose him, and suffer to go.'
45 Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews--namely those who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds--became believers in Him;
Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
46 though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.
but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
47 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.
the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, 'What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
48 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."
if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it.
and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, 'Ye have not known anything,
50 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."
nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
51 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,
And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.
and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
53 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.
From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
54 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.
Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.
55 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;
56 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?"
they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, 'What doth appear to you — that he may not come to the feast?'
57 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.
and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.
