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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John 11
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Lazarus Dies at Bethany
1Now a man was sick —Lazarus from Bethany,#Mk 11:1 the village of Mary and her sister Martha.#Lk 10:38–42 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair,#Lk 7:38; Jn 12:3 and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. 3So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,#Lk 9:32; Jn 9:3; 10:38; 11:40; 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18 so that the Son of God#Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 may be glorified through it.” 5Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was. 7Then after that, he said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea#Lk 1:5 again.”
8“Rabbi,”#Mt 23:7–8; 26:25,49; Mk 9:5; 11:21; 14:45; Jn 1:38,49; 3:2,26; 4:31; 6:25; 9:2 the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you,#Jn 10:31 and you’re going there again?”
9 “Aren’t there twelve hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.#Mt 5:14; Jn 8:12 10But if anyone walks during the night,#Jn 9:4 he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”
11He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep,#Ac 13:36; 1Co 11:30 but I’m on my way to wake him up.”
12Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
13Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep. 14So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died. 15I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”
16Then Thomas#Mk 3:18 (called “Twin”#11:16 Gk Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too so that we may die with him.”
The Resurrection and the Life
17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb#Jn 5:28 four days. 18Bethany was near Jerusalem#Mt 23:37 (less than two miles#11:18 Lit fifteen stadia; one stadion = 600 feet away). 19Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
23 “Your brother will rise #
Mk 9:27
again,” Jesus told her.
24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”#Jn 2:4; 6:39; 1Pt 1:5; 3:3; 2Pt 3:3; Jd 18
25Jesus said to her, “I am#Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me,#Jn 6:35 even if he dies, will live.#Php 1:21 26Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.#Jn 6:50; 8:51 Do you believe this?”
27“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah,#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 the Son#Jn 5:19 of God, who comes into the world.”#Jn 18:37
Jesus Shares the Sorrow of Death
28Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.#Mk 1:45 30Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb#Jn 5:28 to cry there.
32As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet#Rv 19:10 and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”
33When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved#11:33 Or angry, also in v. 38 in his spirit#Ps 51:12 and troubled. 34“Where have you put him?” he asked.
“Lord,” they told him, “come and see.”
35Jesus wept.#Lk 19:41
36So the Jews said, “See how he loved#Mk 14:44; Jn 5:20 him!” 37But some of them said, “Couldn’t he who opened the blind man’s eyes#Jn 9:6–7 also have kept this man from dying?”
The Seventh Sign: Raising Lazarus from the Dead
38Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.#Mt 27:60; Mk 15:46; Lk 24:2; Jn 20:1 39“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.
Martha, the dead man’s sister, told him, “Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days.”
40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory#Jn 17:24 of God?” #Mk 9:23; 1Jn 3:2
41So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank#Mk 8:6; Rm 1:8 you that you heard me.#Jn 9:31 42I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent#Mk 9:37; Jn 1:6 me.” 43After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.#Jn 2:23; 12:11 46But some of them went to the Pharisees#Mk 7:3 and told them what Jesus had done.
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin#Mk 13:9 and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs? 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans#Ac 16:21 will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49One of them, Caiaphas,#Mt 26:3,57; Lk 3:2; Jn 18:13–14,24,28; Ac 4:6 who was high priest#Lv 16:32 that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50You’re not considering that it is to your#11:50 Other mss read to our advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”#Is 53:8; Jn 18:14 51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die#2Co 4:10 for the nation, 52and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children#Lk 1:7 of God. 53So from that day on they plotted to kill him.#Jn 5:18
54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly#Jn 7:1 among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness,#Mt 3:1; Rv 12:6 to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.
55Now the Jewish Passover#Ex 12:11 was near, and many went up to Jerusalem#Mt 23:37 from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 56They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple,#Ac 21:26 “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival,#Jn 2:23 will he?” 57The chief priests#Mt 2:4 and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him.
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