Jaona 11
1 Ary nisy lehilahy anankiray narary, dia Lazarosy avy any Betania, tanànan’ i Maria sy Marta rahavaviny.
[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.
2 Maria dia ilay nanosotra ny Tompo tamin’ ny menaka manitra sy namaoka ny tongony tamin’ ny volon-dohany, ary Lazarosy anadahiny no narary.
Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
3 Ary izy mirahavavy dia naniraka tany amin’ i Jesosy hanao hoe: Tompoko, marary ilay tianao.
So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
4 Ary rehefa ren’ i Jesosy izany, dia hoy Izy: Tsy ho fahafatesana no anton’ izany aretina izany, fa ny hampisehoana ny voninahitr’ Andriamanitra, mba hankalazana ny Zanak’ Andriamanitra.
[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].”
5 Ary Jesosy tia an’ i Marta sy ny rahavaviny ary Lazarosy.
Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
6 Koa nony ren’ i Jesosy fa narary Lazarosy, dia mbola nitoetra indroa andro teo amin’ izay nitoerany ihany Izy.
But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
7 Rehefa afaka izany, dia hoy Izy tamin’ ny mpianatra: Andeha isika ho any Jodia indray.
But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
8 Hoy ny mpianatra taminy: Raby ô, vao haingana teo no nitadiavan’ ny Jiosy hitora-bato Anao, ka hankany indray va Hianao?
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]”
9 Jesosy namaly hoe: Tsy roa ambin’ ny folo va ny ora amin’ ny indray andro? Raha misy mandeha amin’ ny antoandro, dia tsy mba tafintohina izy, fa mahita ny fahazavan’ izao tontolo izao.
[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.
10 Fa raha misy kosa mandeha amin’ ny alina, dia ho tafintohina izay, ka tsy misy mazava ao aminy.
It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
11 Izany no nolazainy; ary rehefa afaka izany, dia hoy Izy taminy: Matory Lazarosy sakaizantsika; fa handeha hamoha azy Aho.
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.”
12 Dia hoy ny mpianatra taminy: Tompoko, raha matory izy, dia ho tsara ihany.
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].”
13 Nefa Jesosy nilaza ny fahafatesany; fa nataon’ izy ireo kosa fa fialan-tsasatra amin’ ny torimaso no nolazainy.
Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
14 Ary tamin’ izany Jesosy dia nilaza tsotra taminy hoe: Maty Lazarosy;
So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 ary faly Aho noho ny aminareo, satria tsy teo Aho, mba hinoanareo; fa andeha isika hankany aminy.
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.”
16 Dia hoy Tomasy (izay atao hoe Didymo) tamin’ ny mpianatra namany: Andeha isika mba hiara-maty aminy.
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].”
17 Ary nony tonga Jesosy, dia hitany fa efa nilevina hefarana izy.
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.
18 Ary Betania dia tao akaikin’ i Jerosalema, tokony ho dimy ambin’ ny folo stadio no elanelany.
Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
19 Ary maro tamin’ ny Jiosy no efa tonga teo amin’ i Marta sy Maria hitsapa alahelo azy noho ny amin’ ny anadahiny.
Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
20 Ary Marta, raha nandre fa tamy Jesosy, dia nandeha nitsena Azy; fa Maria kosa nitoetra tao an-trano.
When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
21 Ary hoy Marta tamin’ i Jesosy: Tompoko, raha teto Hianao, dia tsy maty ny anadahiko.
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]!
22 Nefa fantatro fa na dia ankehitriny izao aza na inona na inona no hangatahinao amin’ Andriamanitra dia homen’ Andriamanitra Anao.
But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
23 Hoy Jesosy taminy: Hitsangana ny anadahinao.
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
24 Fa hoy Marta taminy: Fantatro ihany fa hitsangana izy amin’ ny fitsanganan’ ny maty amin’ ny andro farany;
Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
25 Hoy Jesosy taminy: Izaho no fananganana ny maty sy fiainana; izay mino Ahy, na dia maty aza, dia ho velona indray.
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].
26 Ary izay rehetra velona ka mino Ahy dia tsy ho faty mandrakizay. Mino izany va ianao? (aiōn g165)
Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
27 Hoy izy taminy: Eny, Tompoko; mino aho fa Hianao no Kristy, Zanak’ Andriamanitra, Ilay ho tonga amin’ izao tontolo izao.
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!”
28 Ary rehefa nilaza izany izy, dia lasa nandeha ka niantso mangingina an’ i Maria rahavaviny, nanao hoe: Tonga ny Mpampianatra ka miantso anao.
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.”
29 Ary raha vao nandre izany Maria, dia nitsangana faingana izy ka nankeo aminy.
When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Fa Jesosy tsy mbola tonga tao an-tanàna, fa mbola teo amin’ ilay nitsenan’ i Marta Azy ihany.
Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
31 Ary ny Jiosy izay tao amin’ i Maria tao an-trano ka nitsapa alahelo azy, raha nahita azy nitsangana faingana ka nivoaka, dia nanaraka azy, satria nataony fa nankany amin’ ny fasana hitomany any izy.
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.
32 Ary Maria, rehefa tonga teo amin’ nitoeran’ i Jesosy ka nahita Azy, dia niankohoka teo amin’ ny tongony ka nanao taminy hoe: Tompoko, raha teto Hianao, dia tsy maty ny anadahiko.
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!”
33 Ary Jesosy nony nahita azy nitomany sy ny Jiosy izay niaraka taminy nitomany koa, dia vonto ny fanahiny, ka tora-kovitra Izy;
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.
34 ary hoy Izy: Aiza moa no nandevenanareo azy? Dia hoy ireo taminy: Tompoko, andeha hizaha.
He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesosy nitomany.
Jesus began to cry.
36 Dia hoy ny Jiosy: Akory ity haben’ ny fitiavany azy!
Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
37 Fa hoy ny sasany: Moa tsy hain’ ilehity, Izay nampahiratra ny mason’ ilay jamba va, ny manao izay tsy ho nahafaty an-dralehilahy ity?
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]”
38 Dia vonto indray ny fanahin’ i Jesosy ka nankeo amin’ ny fasana Izy; ary zohy izany, sady nisy vato narindrina teo.
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.
39 Hoy Jesosy: Esory ny vato. Hoy Marta, anabavin’ ny maty, taminy: Tompoko, maimbo izy izao, fa efa hefarana izay.
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!”
40 Hoy Jesosy taminy: Tsy voalazako va fa raha hino ianao, dia ho hitanao ny voninahitr’ Andriamanitra?
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]?”
41 Dia nesoriny ny vato. Ary Jesosy dia nanandratra ny masony ka nanao hoe: Ray ô, misaotra Anao Aho, fa efa nihaino Ahy Hianao.
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].
42 Raha Izaho, dia fantatro fa mihaino Ahy mandrakariva Hianao; fa noho ny vahoaka mitsangana manodidina no nilazako izany, mba hinoany fa Hianao no naniraka Ahy.
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.”
43 Ary rehefa nanao izany teny izany Izy, dia niantso tamin’ ny feo mahery hoe: Ry Lazarosy, mivoaha!
After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 Dia nivoaka ny maty nisy fehim-paty ny tànany sy ny tongony, sady voafehy mosara koa ny tavany. Hoy Jesosy tamin’ ny olona: Vahao izy, ka avelao handeha.
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].
45 Ary maro tamin’ ny Jiosy, dia ireo nankeo amin’ i Maria ka nahita ny zavatra nataon’ i Jesosy ireo, no nino Azy.
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]).
46 Fa ny sasany tamin’ ireo kosa dia lasa nankany amin’ ny Fariseo ka nilaza taminy izay nataony.
But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Ary ny lohan’ ny mpisorona sy ny Fariseo nanangona ny Synedriona ka nanao hoe: Ahoana no hataontsika? fa iny Lehilahy iny dia manao famantarana maro.
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!
48 Raha avelantsika hanao toy izany ihany Izy, dia hino Azy avokoa ny olona rehetra; ary ho avy ny Romana ka handrava ny fonenantsika sy ny firenentsika.
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!”
49 Ary ny anankiray taminy, dia Kaiafa, mpisoronabe tamin’ izany taona izany, nanao taminy hoe: Hianareo tsy mahalala na inona na inona,
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]!
50 na misaina akory fa tsara ho anareo, raha ny lehilahy iray no ho faty hamonjy ny firenena, mba tsy ho rava avokoa ity firenena ity.
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.”
51 Ary tsy niteny izany ho azy izy, fa satria mpisoronabe tamin’ izany taona izany izy, dia naminany fa Jesosy ho faty hamonjy ny firenena;
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.
52 ary tsy hamonjy io firenena io ihany, fa mba hanangona ny zanak’ Andriamanitra izay efa niely ho antoko iray.
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].
53 Koa hatramin’ izany andro izany dia nihendry hahafaty Azy ireo.
So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
54 Ary Jesosy tsy nandeha niharihary teny amin’ ny Jiosy intsony; fa niala teo Izy nankany amin’ ny tany akaikin’ ny efitra, ho any an-tanàna atao hoe Efraima, ary nitoetra tany Izy mbamin’ ny mpianatra.
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].
55 Ary efa akaiky ny Pasky ny Jiosy; ary maro avy tany an-tsaha no niakatra ho any Jerosalema talohan’ ny Paska mba hanadio ny tenany.
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].
56 Dia nitady an’ i Jesosy ireo, raha nijanona teo an-kianjan’ ny tempoly, ka niresaka hoe: Ahoana no hevitrareo? Tsy mba ho tonga amin’ ny andro firavoravoana va Izy?
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?”
57 Ary ny lohan’ ny mpisorona sy ny Fariseo efa nandidy fa raha misy olona mahalala izay itoerany, dia tsy maintsy milaza, mba hisamborany Azy.
