John 11

ABU^{(i) 1} Now a certain one was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha her sister. ² It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. ³ The sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. ⁴ And Jesus hearing it, said: This sickness is not for death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby. ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶ When therefore he heard that he was sick, he then abode two days in the place where he was. ⁷ Then after this he says to the disciples: Let us go into Judaea again. ⁸ The disciples say to him: Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? ⁹ Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ¹¹ These things said he; and after this he says to them: Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. ¹² Therefore his disciples said: Lord if he has fallen asleep, he will be restored. ¹³ But Jesus had spoken of his death; but they thought that he said it of taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴ Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that ye may believe. But let us go to him. ¹⁶ Therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him. ¹⁷ Having come therefore, Jesus found that he had already been four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Now Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off. ¹⁹ And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. ²⁰ Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, went and met him; but Mary sat in the house. ²¹ Then said Martha to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. ²² But even now, I know that whatever thou shalt ask of God, God will give it thee. ²³ Jesus says to her: Thy brother will rise again. ²⁴ Martha says to him: I know that he will rise again, in the resurrection at the last day. ²⁵ Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live; ²⁶ and whoever lives and believes on me, shall never die. Believest thou this? ²⁷ She says to him: Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world. ²⁸ And having said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Teacher is come, and calls for thee. ²⁹ And she, when she heard it, rises quickly and comes to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. ³¹ The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying: She goes to the tomb to weep there. ³² Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell down at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. ³³ Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, groaned in spirit, and was troubled. ³⁴ And he said: Where have ye laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him! ³⁷ And some of them said: Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused even that this man should not have died? ³⁸ Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. ³⁹ Jesus says: Take away the stone. The sister of him that was dead, Martha, says to him: Lord, by this time he is offensive; for he has been dead four days. ⁴⁰ Jesus says to her: Said I not to thee, that, if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God? ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes upward, and said: Father, I thank thee that thou didst hear me. ⁴² And I knew that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me. ⁴³ And having thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. ⁴⁴ And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them: Loose him, and let him go. ⁴⁵ Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what he did, believed on him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did. ⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs? ⁴⁸ If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. ⁴⁹ And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: Ye know nothing; ⁵⁰ nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish. ⁵¹ And this he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; ⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad. ⁵³ Therefore from that day forth they took counsel together to put him to death. ⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. ⁵⁵ And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country, before the passover, that they might purify themselves. ⁵⁶ They sought therefore for Jesus, and said among themselves, as they stood in the temple: What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? ⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might seize him.