< ג'ון 11 >
| ויהי איש חולה לעזר שמו מבית היני כפר מרים ומרתא אחותה׃ | 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.
| היא מרים אשר משחה את האדון בשמן המר ותנגב את רגליו בשערותיה ועתה לעזר אחיה חלה׃ | 2 |
Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
| ותשלחנה אחיותיו אליו לאמר אדני הנה זה אשר אהבת חלה הוא׃ | 3 |
So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
| וישמע ישוע ויאמר זאת המחלה איננה למות כי אם לכבוד האלהים למען יכבד בה בן האלהים׃ | 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].”
| וישוע אהב את מרתא ואת אחותה ואת לעזר׃ | 5 |
Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
| ויהי כשמעו כי חלה ויתמהמה וישב יומים במקום אשר הוא שם׃ | 6 |
But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
| מאחרי כן אמר לתלמידיו לכו ונשובה לארץ יהודה׃ | 7 |
But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
| ויאמרו אליו תלמידיו רבי עתה זה בקשו היהודים לסקלך ואתה תשוב שמה׃ | 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]”
| ויען ישוע הלא שתים עשרה שעות ליום איש כי ילך ביום לא יכשל כי יראה אור העולם הזה׃ | 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.
| אבל ההלך בלילה יכשל כי האור אין בו׃ | 10 |
It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
| כזאת דבר ואחרי כן אמר אליהם לעזר ידידנו ישן הוא ואנכי הלך למען אעירנו׃ | 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.”
| ויאמרו תלמידיו אדני אם ישן הוא יושע׃ | 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].”
| וישוע דבר על מותו והמה חשבו כי על מנוחת השנה דבר׃ | 13 |
Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
| אז גלה ישוע את אזנם ויאמר אליהם לעזר מת׃ | 14 |
So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
| ושמח אני בגללכם כי לא הייתי שם למען תאמינו ועתה נסעה ונלכה אליו׃ | 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.”
| ויאמר תומא הנקרא דידומוס אל התלמידים חבריו נלכה גם אנחנו למען נמות עמו׃ | 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].”
| ויבא ישוע וימצאהו זה ארבעה ימים שכב בקבר׃ | 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.
| ובית היני היה קרוב לירושלים כדרך חמש עשרה ריס׃ | 18 |
Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
| ורבים מן היהודים באו בית מרתא ומרים לנחם אתהן על אחיהן׃ | 19 |
Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
| ויהי כשמע מרתא כי ישוע בא ותצא לקרתו ומרים יושבת בבית׃ | 20 |
When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
| ותאמר מרתא אל ישוע אדני אלו היית פה כי אז לא מת אחי׃ | 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]!
| וגם עתה ידעתי כי כל אשר תשאל מאת אלהים יתן לך אלהים׃ | 22 |
But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
| ויאמר אליה ישוע קום יקום אחיך׃ | 23 |
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
| ותאמר אליו מרתא ידעתי כי יקום בתקומה ביום האחרון׃ | 24 |
Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
| ויאמר אליה ישוע אנכי התקומה והחיים המאמין בי יחיה גם כי ימות׃ | 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].
| וכל החי אשר יאמין בי לא ימות לעולם התאמיני זאת׃ (aiōn ) | 26 |
Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn )
| ותאמר אליו כן אדני האמנתי כי אתה המשיח בן האלהים הבא לעולם׃ | 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!”
| ויהי אחר דברה זאת ותלך ותקרא למרים אחותה בסתר לאמר הנה המורה פה וקרא לך׃ | 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.”
| היא שמעה ותמהר לקום ותבא אליו׃ | 29 |
When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
| וישוע טרם יבא אל הכפר כי עודנו עמד במקום אשר פגשתו שם מרתא׃ | 30 |
Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
| והיהודים אשר באו אל ביתה לנחמה כראותם את מרים כי קמה פתאם ותצא הלכו אחריה באמרם כי הלכה לה אל הקבר לבכות שמה׃ | 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.
| ותבא מרים אל המקום אשר ישוע עמד שם ותרא אתו ותפל לרגליו ותאמר לו אדני אלו היית פה כי אז לא מת אחי׃ | 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!”
| ויהי כראות ישוע אתה בכיה וגם היהודים אשר באו אתה בכים ותזעם רוחו ויהי מרעיד׃ | 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.
| ויאמר איפה שמתם אתו ויאמרו אליו אדני בא וראה׃ | 34 |
He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
| ויאמרו היהודים הנה מה גדלה אהבתו אתו׃ | 36 |
Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
| ומקצתם אמרו הפקח עיני העור הלא יכל לעשות שגם זה לא ימות׃ | 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]”
| ויוסף עוד ישוע להזעם ברוחו ויבא אל הקבר והוא מערה ואבן על מבואה׃ | 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.
| ויאמר ישוע שאו את האבן מעליה ותאמר אליו מרתא אחות המת אדני הנה כבר באש כי ארבעה ימים לו׃ | 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!”
| ויאמר אליה ישוע הלא אמרתי לך כי אם תאמיני תחזי את כבוד האלהים׃ | 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]?”
| וישאו את האבן אשר המת הושם שם וישוע נשא את עיניו למרום ויאמר אודך אבי כי עניתני׃ | 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].
| ואני ידעתי כי בכל עת תענני אולם בעבור העם הזה אשר סביבותי דברתי למען יאמינו בי כי אתה שלחתני׃ | 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.”
| ויהי ככלותו לדבר ויקרא בקול גדול לעזר קום צא׃ | 43 |
After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
| ויצא המת וידיו ורגליו כרוכת בתכריכין ופיו לוטים בסודר ויאמר אליהם ישוע התירו אתו וילך לדרכו׃ | 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].
| ורבים מן היהודים אשר באו אל מרים בראותם את אשר עשה ישוע האמינו בו׃ | 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]).
| ומקצתם הלכו אל הפרושים ויגידו להם את אשר עשה ישוע׃ | 46 |
But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
| אז יקהילו הכהנים הגדולים והפרושים את הסנהדרין ויאמרו מה נעשה כי האיש הלזה עשה אתות הרבה׃ | 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!
| אם נניח לו לעשות כלם יאמינו בו ובאו הרומיים ולקחו גם את אדמתנו וגם את עמנו׃ | 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!”
| ואחד מהם קיפא שמו והוא כהן גדול בשנה ההיא אמר אליהם הן לא תדעו מאומה׃ | 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]!
| אף לא תתבוננו כי טוב לנו מות איש אחד בעד הגוי מאבד העם כלו׃ | 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.”
| וזאת לא דבר מלבו כי אם בהיותו כהן גדול בשנה ההיא נבא כי ישוע ימות בעד העם׃ | 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.
| ולא בעד העם לבד כי אם לקבץ גם את בני אלהים המפזרים והיו לאחדים׃ | 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].
| ויועצו יחדו להמיתו מהיום ההוא והלאה׃ | 53 |
So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
| על כן לא התהלך ישוע עוד בתוך היהודים בגלוי כי אם סר משם לארץ הקרובה אל המדבר אל עיר עפרים ויגר שם עם תלמידיו׃ | 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].
| ויקרבו ימי הפסח ליהודים ועם רב עלו מן הארץ ירושלימה לפני הפסח למען יטהרו׃ | 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].
| ויבקשו את ישוע ובעמדם בבית המקדש נדברו לאמר מה תחשבו הכי לא יבוא אל החג׃ | 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?”
| והכהנים הגדולים והפרושים גזרו גזרה אשר אם ידע איש את מקומו יודיענו למען יתפשהו׃ | 57 |
