John 11
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The death of Lazarus
1Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2(This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay ill, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is ill.’
4When he heard this, Jesus said, ‘This illness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.’ 5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was two more days, 7and then he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go back to Judea.’
8‘But Rabbi,’ they said, ‘a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?’
9Jesus answered, ‘Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the day-time will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.’
11After he had said this, he went on to tell them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.’
12His disciples replied, ‘Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.’ 13Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
14So then he told them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead, 15and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.’
16Then Thomas (also known as Didymus#11:16 Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.) said to the rest of the disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we may die with him.’
Jesus comforts the sisters of Lazarus
17On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18Now Bethany was less than two miles#11:18 Or about 3 kilometres from Jerusalem, 19and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
21‘Lord,’ Martha said to Jesus, ‘if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.’
23Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’
24Martha answered, ‘I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.’
25Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?’
27‘Yes, Lord,’ she replied, ‘I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.’
28After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. ‘The Teacher is here,’ she said, ‘and is asking for you.’ 29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34‘Where have you laid him?’ he asked.
‘Come and see, Lord,’ they replied.
35Jesus wept.
36Then the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’
37But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’
Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead
38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39‘Take away the stone,’ he said.
‘But, Lord,’ said Martha, the sister of the dead man, ‘by this time there is a bad odour, for he has been there four days.’
40Then Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?’
41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, ‘Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.’
43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth round his face.
Jesus said to them, ‘Take off the grave clothes and let him go.’
The plot to kill Jesus
45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
‘What are we accomplishing?’ they asked. ‘Here is this man performing many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.’
49Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, ‘You know nothing at all! 50You do not realise that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.’
51He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, ‘What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?’ 57But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
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Yoḥanan (John) 11
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1And a certain one was sick, El‛azar from Bĕyth Anyah, the village of Miryam and her sister Martha.
2(Now it was Miryam who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother El‛azar was sick).
3Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Master, see, he whom You love is sick.”
4But when יהושע heard, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the esteem of Elohim, so that the Son of Elohim might be esteemed by it.”
5Now יהושע loved Martha and her sister and El‛azar.
6Therefore, when He heard that he was sick, then indeed He stayed at the place where He was, two more days.
7Then after this He said to the taught ones, “Let us go back to Yehuḏah.”
8The taught ones said to Him, “Rabbi, the Yehuḏim were but now seeking to stone You, and are You going back there?”
9יהושע answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
11He said this, and after that He said to them, “Our friend El‛azar has fallen asleep, but I am going there, to wake him up.”
12Therefore the taught ones said to Him, “Master, if he has fallen asleep he shall recover.”
13But יהושע had spoken about his death, whereas they thought that He spoke of taking rest in sleep.
14So then יהושע said to them plainly, “El‛azar has died.
15And for your sake I am glad I was not there, in order for you to believe. But let us go to him.
16T’oma, who is called the Twin, then said to his fellow taught ones, “Let us also go, so that we die with Him.”
17Therefore, when יהושע arrived, He found that he had already been four days in the tomb.
18Now Bĕyth Anyah was near Yerushalayim, about fifteen stadia#About 3 kilometres or 2 miles. away.
19And many of the Yehuḏim had come to Martha and Miryam, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20Martha, then, when she heard that יהושע was coming, met Him, but Miryam was sitting in the house.
21Martha, then, said to יהושע, “Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22But even now I know that whatever You might ask of Elohim, Elohim shall give You.
23יהושע said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”
24Martha said to Him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25יהושע said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he dies, he shall live.
26And everyone that is living and believing in Me shall never die at all. Do you believe this?
27She said to Him, “Yes, Master, I believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim, who is coming into the world.”
28And having said this she went away and called her sister Miryam secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and calls you.”
29When she heard, she rose up quickly and came to Him.
30And יהושע had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
31Therefore the Yehuḏim who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, when they saw that Miryam rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32Miryam, therefore, when she came where יהושע was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33יהושע, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Yehuḏim who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled,
34and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Master, come and see.”
35יהושע wept.
36The Yehuḏim therefore said, “See how He loved him!”
37And some of them said, “Was this One, who opened the eyes of the blind, not also able to prevent this one from dying?”
38יהושע, therefore, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39יהושע said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to Him, “Master, already he smells, for it is four days.”
40יהושע said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the esteem of Elohim?”
41So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me.
43And when He had said this, He cried with a loud voice, “El‛azar, come out!”
44And he who died came out bound feet and hands with wrappings, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. יהושע said to them, “Loosen him, and let him go.”
45Therefore many of the Yehuḏim who had come to Miryam, and had seen what יהושע did, believed in Him.
46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what יהושע did.
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? Because this Man does many signs.
48If we let Him alone like this, they all shall believe in Him, and the Romans shall come and take away from us both our place and nation.
49And one of them, Qayapha, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know naught,
50neither do you consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the entire nation should perish.”
51But he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year he prophesied that יהושע was about to die for the nation,
52and not for the nation only, but to gather together into one the children of Elohim who were scattered abroad.
53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54יהושע therefore no longer went openly among the Yehuḏim, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephrayim, and remained there with His taught ones.
55Now the Pĕsaḥ of the Yehuḏim was near, and many went from the country up to Yerushalayim before the Pĕsaḥ, to set themselves apart.
56And so they were seeking יהושע, and spoke among one another, standing in the Set-apart Place, “What do you think? Is He not coming to the festival at all?”
57And both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, in order for them to seize Him.
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