John 11
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The Death of Lazarus
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Lk 10.38,39;
Jn 12.3. A man by the name of Lazarus was sick in the village of Bethany. He had two sisters, Mary and Martha. This was the same Mary who later poured perfume on the Lord's head and wiped his feet with her hair. 3The sisters sent a message to the Lord and told him that his good friend Lazarus was sick.
4When Jesus heard this, he said, “His sickness won't end in death. It will bring glory to God and his Son.”
5Jesus loved Martha and her sister and brother. 6But he stayed where he was for two more days. 7Then he said to his disciples, “Now we will go back to Judea.”
8“Teacher,” they said, “the people there want to stone you to death! Why do you want to go back?”
9Jesus answered, “Aren't there twelve hours in each day? If you walk during the day, you will have light from the sun, and you won't stumble. 10But if you walk during the night, you will stumble, because you don't have any light.” 11Then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, and I am going there to wake him up.”
12They replied, “Lord, if he is asleep, he will get better.” 13Jesus really meant that Lazarus was dead, but they thought he was talking only about sleep.
14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead! 15I am glad I wasn't there, because now you will have a chance to put your faith in me. Let's go to him.”
16Thomas, whose nickname was “Twin,” said to the other disciples, “Come on. Let's go, so we can die with him.”
Jesus Brings Lazarus to Life
17When Jesus got to Bethany, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18Bethany was less than three kilometers from Jerusalem, 19and many people had come from the city to comfort Martha and Mary because their brother had died.
20When Martha heard that Jesus had arrived, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house. 21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22Yet even now I know that God will do anything you ask.”
23Jesus told her, “Your brother will live again!”
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2 Macc 7.22,23; 12.43-45. Martha answered, “I know he will be raised to life on the last day,#11.24 the last day: When God will judge all people. when all the dead are raised.”
25Jesus then said, “I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even if they die. 26And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?”
27“Yes, Lord!” she replied. “I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God. You are the one we hoped would come into the world.”
28After Martha said this, she went and privately said to her sister Mary, “The Teacher is here, and he wants to see you.” 29As soon as Mary heard this, she got up and went out to Jesus. 30He was still outside the village where Martha had gone to meet him. 31Many people had come to comfort Mary, and when they saw her quickly leave the house, they thought she was going out to the tomb to cry. So they followed her.
32Mary went to where Jesus was. Then as soon as she saw him, she knelt at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33When Jesus saw that Mary and the people with her were crying, he was terribly upset 34and asked, “Where have you put his body?”
They replied, “Lord, come and you will see.”
35Jesus started crying, 36and the people said, “See how much he loved Lazarus.”
37Some of them said, “He gives sight to the blind. Why couldn't he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
38Jesus was still terribly upset. So he went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone rolled against the entrance. 39Then he told the people to roll the stone away. But Martha said, “Lord, you know that Lazarus has been dead four days, and there will be a bad smell.”
40Jesus replied, “Didn't I tell you that if you had faith, you would see the glory of God?”
41After the stone had been rolled aside, Jesus looked up toward heaven and prayed, “Father, I thank you for answering my prayer. 42I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so the people here would believe you sent me.”
43When Jesus had finished praying, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The man who had been dead came out. His hands and feet were wrapped with strips of burial cloth, and a cloth covered his face.
Jesus then told the people, “Untie him and let him go.”
The Plot To Kill Jesus
(Matthew 26.1-5; Mark 14.1,2; Luke 22.1,2)
45Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw the things Jesus did, and they put their faith in him. 46Others went to the Pharisees and told what Jesus had done. 47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What should we do? This man is working a lot of miracles.#11.47 miracles: See the note at 2.11. 48If we don't stop him now, everyone will put their faith in him. Then the Romans will come and destroy our temple and our nation.”#11.48 destroy our temple and our nation: The Jewish leaders were afraid that Jesus would lead his followers to rebel against Rome and that the Roman army would then destroy their nation.
49One of the council members was Caiaphas, who was also high priest that year. He spoke up and said, “You people don't have any sense at all! 50Don't you know it is better for one person to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed?” 51Caiaphas did not say this on his own. As high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation. 52Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all of God's scattered people. 53From that day on, the council started making plans to put Jesus to death.
54Because of this plot against him, Jesus stopped going around in public. He went to the town of Ephraim, which was near the desert, and he stayed there with his disciples.
55It was almost time for Passover. Many of the Jewish people who lived out in the country had come to Jerusalem to get themselves ready#11.55 get themselves ready: The Jewish people had to do certain things to prepare themselves to worship God. for the festival. 56They looked around for Jesus. Then when they were in the temple, they asked each other, “You don't think he will come here for Passover, do you?”
57The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus. This is how they hoped to arrest him.
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John 11
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1And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister —
2and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing —
3therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, ‘Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;’
4and 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.’
5And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
6when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
7then after this, he saith to the disciples, ‘We may go to Judea again;’
8the disciples say to him, ‘Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!’
9Jesus 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;
10and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.’
11These 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;’
12therefore said his disciples, ‘Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;’
13but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
14Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, ‘Lazarus hath died;
15and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;’
16therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, ‘We may go — we also, that we may die with him,’
17Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
18And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
19and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
20Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
21Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, ‘Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
22but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;’
23Jesus saith to her, ‘Thy brother shall rise again.’
24Martha saith to him, ‘I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;’
25Jesus said to her, ‘I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
26and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die — to the age;
27believest 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.’
28And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, ‘The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;’
29she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;
30and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
31the 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.’
32Mary, 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;’
33Jesus, 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‘Where have ye laid him?’ they say to him, ‘Sir, come and see;’
35Jesus wept.
36The Jews, therefore, said, ‘Lo, how he was loving him!’
37and 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?’
38Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
39Jesus 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;’
40Jesus saith to her, ‘Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?’
41They 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;
42and 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.’
43And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, ‘Lazarus, come forth;’
44and 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.’
45Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
46but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
47the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, ‘What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
48if 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.’
49And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, ‘Ye have not known anything,
50nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.’
51And 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,
52and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
53From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
54Jesus, 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.
55And 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;
56they 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?’
57and 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.
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