yohanaḥ 11
1 anantaraṁ mariyam tasyā bhaginī marthā ca yasmin vaithanīyāgrāme vasatastasmin grāme iliyāsar nāmā pīḍita eka āsīt|
Now a man named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill; he belonged to the same village as Mary and her sister Martha.
2 yā mariyam prabhuṁ sugandhitelaina marddayitvā svakeśaistasya caraṇau samamārjat tasyā bhrātā sa iliyāsar rogī|
This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.
3 aparañca he prabho bhavān yasmin prīyate sa eva pīḍitostīti kathāṁ kathayitvā tasya bhaginyau preṣitavatyau|
The sisters, therefore, sent this message to Jesus – ‘Master, your friend is ill’;
4 tadā yīśurimāṁ vārttāṁ śrutvākathayata pīḍeyaṁ maraṇārthaṁ na kintvīśvarasya mahimārtham īśvaraputrasya mahimaprakāśārthañca jātā|
and, when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it.”
5 yīśu ryadyapimarthāyāṁ tadbhaginyām iliyāsari cāprīyata,
Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 tathāpi iliyāsaraḥ pīḍāyāḥ kathaṁ śrutvā yatra āsīt tatraiva dinadvayamatiṣṭhat|
Yet, when he heard of the illness of Lazarus, he still stayed two days in the place where he was.
7 tataḥ param sa śiṣyānakathayad vayaṁ puna ryihūdīyapradeśaṁ yāmaḥ|
Then, after that, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8 tataste pratyavadan, he guro svalpadināni gatāni yihūdīyāstvāṁ pāṣāṇai rhantum udyatāstathāpi kiṁ punastatra yāsyasi?
“Rabbi,” they replied, “the authorities there were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?”
9 yīśuḥ pratyavadat, ekasmin dine kiṁ dvādaśaghaṭikā na bhavanti? kopi divā gacchan na skhalati yataḥ sa etajjagato dīptiṁ prāpnoti|
“Are not there twelve hours in the day?” answered Jesus. “If someone walks about in the daytime, they don’t stumble, because they can see the light of the sun;
10 kintu rātrau gacchan skhalati yato hetostatra dīpti rnāsti|
but, if they walk about at night, they stumble, because they have not the light.”
11 imāṁ kathāṁ kathayitvā sa tānavadad, asmākaṁ bandhuḥ iliyāsar nidritobhūd idānīṁ taṁ nidrāto jāgarayituṁ gacchāmi|
And, when he had said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may wake him.”
12 yīśu rmṛtau kathāmimāṁ kathitavān kintu viśrāmārthaṁ nidrāyāṁ kathitavān iti jñātvā śiṣyā akathayan,
“If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will get well,” said the disciples.
13 he guro sa yadi nidrāti tarhi bhadrameva|
But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.
14 tadā yīśuḥ spaṣṭaṁ tān vyāharat, iliyāsar amriyata;
Then he said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead;
15 kintu yūyaṁ yathā pratītha tadarthamahaṁ tatra na sthitavān ityasmād yuṣmannimittam āhlāditohaṁ, tathāpi tasya samīpe yāma|
and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him.”
16 tadā thomā yaṁ didumaṁ vadanti sa saṅginaḥ śiṣyān avadad vayamapi gatvā tena sārddhaṁ mriyāmahai|
At this, Thomas, who was called ‘The Twin,’ said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
17 yīśustatropasthāya iliyāsaraḥ śmaśāne sthāpanāt catvāri dināni gatānīti vārttāṁ śrutavān|
When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.
18 vaithanīyā yirūśālamaḥ samīpasthā krośaikamātrāntaritā;
Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,
19 tasmād bahavo yihūdīyā marthāṁ mariyamañca bhyātṛśokāpannāṁ sāntvayituṁ tayoḥ samīpam āgacchan|
a number of the people had come there to comfort Martha and Mary because of their brother’s death.
20 marthā yīśorāgamanavārtāṁ śrutvaiva taṁ sākṣād akarot kintu mariyam geha upaviśya sthitā|
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.
21 tadā marthā yīśumavādat, he prabho yadi bhavān atrāsthāsyat tarhi mama bhrātā nāmariṣyat|
“Master,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 kintvidānīmapi yad īśvare prārthayiṣyate īśvarastad dāsyatīti jāne'haṁ|
Even now, I know that God will grant you whatever you ask him.”
23 yīśuravādīt tava bhrātā samutthāsyati|
“Your brother will rise to life,” said Jesus.
24 marthā vyāharat śeṣadivase sa utthānasamaye protthāsyatīti jāne'haṁ|
“I know that he will,” replied Martha, “in the resurrection at the Last day.”
25 tadā yīśuḥ kathitavān ahameva utthāpayitā jīvayitā ca yaḥ kaścana mayi viśvasiti sa mṛtvāpi jīviṣyati;
“I am the resurrection and the life,” said Jesus. “He who believes in me will live, though he die;
26 yaḥ kaścana ca jīvan mayi viśvasiti sa kadāpi na mariṣyati, asyāṁ kathāyāṁ kiṁ viśvasiṣi? (aiōn g165)
and he who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (aiōn g165)
27 sāvadat prabho yasyāvataraṇāpekṣāsti bhavān saevābhiṣiktta īśvaraputra iti viśvasimi|
“Yes Master,” she answered. “I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28 iti kathāṁ kathayitvā sā gatvā svāṁ bhaginīṁ mariyamaṁ guptamāhūya vyāharat gururupatiṣṭhati tvāmāhūyati ca|
After saying this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, and whispered, “The teacher is here, and is asking for you.”
29 kathāmimāṁ śrutvā sā tūrṇam utthāya tasya samīpam agacchat|
As soon as Mary heard that, she got up quickly, and went to meet him.
30 yīśu rgrāmamadhyaṁ na praviśya yatra marthā taṁ sākṣād akarot tatra sthitavān|
Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31 ye yihūdīyā mariyamā sākaṁ gṛhe tiṣṭhantastām asāntvayana te tāṁ kṣipram utthāya gacchantiṁ vilokya vyāharan, sa śmaśāne rodituṁ yāti, ityuktvā te tasyāḥ paścād agacchan|
So the people, who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 yatra yīśuratiṣṭhat tatra mariyam upasthāya taṁ dṛṣṭvā tasya caraṇayoḥ patitvā vyāharat he prabho yadi bhavān atrāsthāsyat tarhi mama bhrātā nāmariṣyat|
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. “Master,” she exclaimed, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”
33 yīśustāṁ tasyāḥ saṅgino yihūdīyāṁśca rudato vilokya śokārttaḥ san dīrghaṁ niśvasya kathitavān taṁ kutrāsthāpayata?
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.
34 te vyāharan, he prabho bhavān āgatya paśyatu|
“Where have you buried him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they answered.
35 yīśunā kranditaṁ|
Jesus burst into tears.
36 ataeva yihūdīyā avadan, paśyatāyaṁ tasmin kidṛg apriyata|
“How he must have loved him!” the people exclaimed;
37 teṣāṁ kecid avadan yondhāya cakṣuṣī dattavān sa kim asya mṛtyuṁ nivārayituṁ nāśaknot?
but some of them said, “Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?”
38 tato yīśuḥ punarantardīrghaṁ niśvasya śmaśānāntikam agacchat| tat śmaśānam ekaṁ gahvaraṁ tanmukhe pāṣāṇa eka āsīt|
Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.
39 tadā yīśuravadad enaṁ pāṣāṇam apasārayata, tataḥ pramītasya bhaginī marthāvadat prabho, adhunā tatra durgandho jātaḥ, yatodya catvāri dināni śmaśāne sa tiṣṭhati|
“Move the stone away,” said Jesus. “Master,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time the smell must be offensive, for this is the fourth day since his death.”
40 tadā yīśuravādīt, yadi viśvasiṣi tarhīśvarasya mahimaprakāśaṁ drakṣyasi kathāmimāṁ kiṁ tubhyaṁ nākathayaṁ?
“Didn’t I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that, if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?”
41 tadā mṛtasya śmaśānāt pāṣāṇo'pasārite yīśurūrdvvaṁ paśyan akathayat, he pita rmama nevesanam aśṛṇoḥ kāraṇādasmāt tvāṁ dhanyaṁ vadāmi|
So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard my prayer;
42 tvaṁ satataṁ śṛṇoṣi tadapyahaṁ jānāmi, kintu tvaṁ māṁ yat prairayastad yathāsmin sthāne sthitā lokā viśvasanti tadartham idaṁ vākyaṁ vadāmi|
I know that you always hear me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that you has sent me as your messenger.”
43 imāṁ kathāṁ kathayitvā sa proccairāhvayat, he iliyāsar bahirāgaccha|
Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus! Come out!”
44 tataḥ sa pramītaḥ śmaśānavastrai rbaddhahastapādo gātramārjanavāsasā baddhamukhaśca bahirāgacchat| yīśuruditavān bandhanāni mocayitvā tyajatainaṁ|
The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding-sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. “Set him free,” said Jesus, “and let him go.”
45 mariyamaḥ samīpam āgatā ye yihūdīyalokāstadā yīśoretat karmmāpaśyan teṣāṁ bahavo vyaśvasan,
In consequence of this, many of the people, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.
46 kintu kecidanye phirūśināṁ samīpaṁ gatvā yīśoretasya karmmaṇo vārttām avadan|
Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.
47 tataḥ paraṁ pradhānayājakāḥ phirūśināśca sabhāṁ kṛtvā vyāharan vayaṁ kiṁ kurmmaḥ? eṣa mānavo bahūnyāścaryyakarmmāṇi karoti|
The chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said, “What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?
48 yadīdṛśaṁ karmma karttuṁ na vārayāmastarhi sarvve lokāstasmin viśvasiṣyanti romilokāścāgatyāsmākam anayā rājadhānyā sārddhaṁ rājyam āchetsyanti|
If we allow him to continue as we are doing, everyone will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our Temple and our nation.”
49 tadā teṣāṁ kiyaphānāmā yastasmin vatsare mahāyājakapade nyayujyata sa pratyavadad yūyaṁ kimapi na jānītha;
One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,
50 samagradeśasya vināśatopi sarvvalokārtham ekasya janasya maraṇam asmākaṁ maṅgalahetukam etasya vivecanāmapi na kurutha|
“You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one person should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed.”
51 etāṁ kathāṁ sa nijabuddhyā vyāharad iti na,
Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation –
52 kintu yīśūstaddeśīyānāṁ kāraṇāt prāṇān tyakṣyati, diśi diśi vikīrṇān īśvarasya santānān saṁgṛhyaikajātiṁ kariṣyati ca, tasmin vatsare kiyaphā mahāyājakatvapade niyuktaḥ san idaṁ bhaviṣyadvākyaṁ kathitavān|
And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the children of God now scattered far and wide.
53 taddinamārabhya te kathaṁ taṁ hantuṁ śaknuvantīti mantraṇāṁ karttuṁ prārebhire|
So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.
54 ataeva yihūdīyānāṁ madhye yīśuḥ saprakāśaṁ gamanāgamane akṛtvā tasmād gatvā prāntarasya samīpasthāyipradeśasyephrāyim nāmni nagare śiṣyaiḥ sākaṁ kālaṁ yāpayituṁ prārebhe|
In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the people any more, but left and went into the country bordering on the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 anantaraṁ yihūdīyānāṁ nistārotsave nikaṭavarttini sati tadutsavāt pūrvvaṁ svān śucīn karttuṁ bahavo janā grāmebhyo yirūśālam nagaram āgacchan,
But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their purification, before the Festival began.
56 yīśoranveṣaṇaṁ kṛtvā mandire daṇḍāyamānāḥ santaḥ parasparaṁ vyāharan, yuṣmākaṁ kīdṛśo bodho jāyate? sa kim utsave'smin atrāgamiṣyati?
So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts, “What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?”
57 sa ca kutrāsti yadyetat kaścid vetti tarhi darśayatu pradhānayājakāḥ phirūśinaśca taṁ dharttuṁ pūrvvam imām ājñāṁ prācārayan|
The chief priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if anyone learned where Jesus was, he should give information, so that they might arrest him.
