John 11:1-16:33 NOW there was a man who was sick, Lazarus of the town of Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ NOW there was a man who was sick, Lazarus of the town of Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha. ² This is the Mary who anointed the feet of Jesus with perfume and wiped them with her hair. Lazarus who was sick, was her brother. ³ His two sisters therefore sent to Jesus, saying, Our Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick. ⁴ Jesus said, This is not a sickness of death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified on his account. ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus. ⁶ When he heard he was sick, he remained two days in the place where he was. ⁷ After that he said to his disciples, Come, let us go again to Judaea. ⁸ His disciples said to him, Teacher, not long ago the Jews wanted to stone you, and yet are you going there again? ⁹ Jesus said to them, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks by day time, he will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if a man travels at night time, he will stumble, because there is no light in it. ¹¹ Jesus said these things; and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus is asleep; but I am going to awake him. ¹² His disciples said to him, Our Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. ¹³ But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that what he said was sleeping in bed. ¹⁴ Then Jesus said to them, plainly, Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And I am glad I was not there, for your sakes, so that you may believe; but let us walk there. ¹⁶ Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, and die with him. ¹⁷ So Jesus came to Bethany, and he found that he had been four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Now Bethany was towards Jerusalem, a distance of about two miles. ¹⁹ And many Jews kept coming to Martha and Mary, to comfort their hearts concerning their brother. ²⁰ When Martha heard that Jesus had come, she went out to meet him; but Mary sat in the house. ²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus, My Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give you. ²³ Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise up. ²⁴ Martha said to him, I know he will rise up in the resurrection at the last day. ²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even though he die, he shall live. ²⁶ And whoever is alive and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? ²⁷ She said to him, Yes, my Lord; I do believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come to the world. ²⁸ And when she had said these things, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, and said to her, Our teacher has come, and he is calling you. ²⁹ When Mary heard it, she rose up quickly and came to him. ³⁰ Jesus had not yet come into the town, but he was still at the same place where Martha met him. ³¹ The Jews also who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary rise up quickly and go out, followed her, for they thought she was going to the tomb to weep. ³² When Mary came where Jesus was, and saw him, she threw herself at his feet, and said to him, My Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping, who had come with her, he was moved in his spirit, and was greatly disturbed. ³⁴ And he said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Our Lord, come and see. ³⁵ And Jesus was in tears. ³⁶ The Jews then said, Look, how much he loved him! ³⁷ Some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have also kept this man from dying? ³⁸ As Jesus was disturbed in himself because of them, he came to the tomb. That tomb was a cave, and a stone was placed at the entrance. ³⁹ Jesus said, Take away this stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, My Lord, he is already disfigured, for he is dead four days. ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, Did not I say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, O Father, I thank you for you have heard me, ⁴² And I know that you always hear me; but I say these things just because of this people who stand around, so that they may believe that you have sent me. ⁴³ And when he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come outside. ⁴⁴ And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with burial clothes; and his face bound with a burial napkin. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go. ⁴⁵ Many of the Jews who had come to Mary, when they saw what Jesus had done, believed in him. ⁴⁶ And some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them everything Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees gathered together and said, What shall we do? for this man does many miracles? ⁴⁸ If we allow him to continue like this, all men will believe in him; and the Romans will come and take over both our country and our people. ⁴⁹ But one of them, called Caiaphas, who was the high priest for that year, said to them, You know nothing; ⁵⁰ Nor do you reason that it is much better for us that one man should die instead of the people, and not all the people perish. ⁵¹ He did not say this of himself; but because he was the high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus had to die for the sake of the people; ⁵² And not only for the sake of the people, but also to gather together the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³ And from that very day, they decided to kill him. ⁵⁴ Jesus therefore did not walk openly among the Jews, but went away thence to a place which is close to the wilderness, in the province of Ephraim; and he remained there with his disciples. ⁵⁵ Now the Jewish passover was at hand; and many went up from the towns to Jerusalem, before the feast, to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ And they were looking for Jesus, and at the temple they kept saying to one another, What do you think, will he not come to the feast? ⁵⁷ But the high priests and the Pharisees had already commanded, that if any man should know where he is, to let them know, so that they might seize him. ¹² ¹ SIX days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ² And they gave him a banquet there; Martha served; but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with him. ³ Then Mary took a cruse containing pure and expensive nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ⁴ And Judas of Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him, said, ⁵ Why was not this oil sold for three hundred pennies, and given to the poor? ⁶ He said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and the purse was with him, and he carried whatever was put in it. ⁷ Jesus then said, Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of my burial. ⁸ For you have the poor always with you, but me you have not always. ⁹ Many people of the Jews heard that Jesus was there; so they came, not only on account of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ And the high priests were thinking of killing Lazarus also; ¹¹ Because on his account a great many Jews were leaving and believing in Jesus. ¹² On the next day, a large crowd which had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ Took branches of palm trees, and went out to greet him, and they cried out and said, Hosanna, Blessed is the king of Israel who comes in the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ And Jesus found an ass and sat on it; as it is written, ¹⁵ Fear not, O daughter of Zion; behold, your king cometh to you, riding on the colt of an ass. ¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at that time; but when Jesus was glorified, then his disciples remembered that these things were written concerning him, and that they had done these things to him. ¹⁷ The people who were with him testified that he had called Lazarus from the tomb, and raised him from the dead. ¹⁸ It was on this account that large crowds went out to meet him, for they heard that he had performed this miracle. ¹⁹ The Pharisees said one to another, Do you see that you have not been able to gain anything? Behold, all the people have gone after him. ²⁰ Now there were some Gentiles * among them who had come up to worship at the feast. ²¹ They came and approached Philip of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, My lord, we would like to see Jesus. ²² Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Jesus. ²³ Jesus answered and said to them, The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, that unless a grain of wheat falls and dies in the ground, it will be left alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. ²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it; and he who has no concern for his life in this world will keep it unto life eternal. ²⁶ If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also will my servant be; he who serves me, him my Father will honor. ²⁷ Now my soul is disturbed, and what shall I say? O my Father, deliver me from this hour; but for this cause I came to this very hour. ²⁸ O Father, glorify your name. Then a voice was heard from heaven, I am glorified, and I shall again be glorified. ²⁹ And the people who stood by heard it, and said, It was thunder; others said, An angel spoke to him. ³⁰ Jesus answered and said to them, This voice was not on my account, but for your sake. ³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the leader of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw every man to me. ³³ He said this, to show by what kind of death he was to die. ³⁴ The people said to him, We have heard from the law that the Christ shall remain forever; how do you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man? ³⁵ Jesus said to them, The light is with you for a little while; walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overcome you; and he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. ³⁶ While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become the sons of the light. Jesus spoke these things, and went away and hid himself from them. ³⁷ Even though he had performed all of these miracles before them, yet they did not believe in him; ³⁸ So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, who said, My Lord, who will believe our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ For this reason, they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ Their eyes have become blind and their heart darkened, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their heart; let them return and I will heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things, when he saw his glory and spoke concerning him. ⁴² Many of the leading men also believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they might not be cast out of the synagogue. ⁴³ For they loved the honor of men more than the glory of God. ⁴⁴ Jesus cried out and said, He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. ⁴⁵ And he who sees me, has already seen him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come into the world as the light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. ⁴⁷ And he who hears my words, and does not obey them, I will not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who oppresses me and does not receive my words, there is one who will judge him; the word which I have spoken, it will judge him at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak of myself; but the Father who sent me, he commanded me what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is life everlasting; these things therefore which I speak, just as my Father told me, so I speak. ¹³ ¹ NOW before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew the hour had come to depart from this world to his Father. And he loved his own who were in this world, and he loved them unto the end. ² During supper, Satan put into the heart of Judas, son of Simon of Iscariot, to deliver him. ³ But Jesus, because he knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, ⁴ He rose from supper and laid aside his robes; and he took an apron and tied it around his loins. ⁵ Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the apron which was tied around his loins. ⁶ When he came to Simon Peter, Simon said to him, You, my Lord, are you going to wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing, you do not know now, but later you will understand. ⁸ Then Simon Peter said to him, You will never wash my feet. Jesus said to him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter said to him, Then, my Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, He who has bathed does not need except to wash his feet only, for he is already all clean; so you are all clean, but not everyone of you. ¹¹ For Jesus knew him who was to betray him; therefore he said, Not everyone of you is clean. ¹² When he had washed their feet, he put on his robes and sat down; and he said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me, our Teacher and our Lord; and what you say is well, for I am. ¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, how much more should you wash one anotherÆs feet? ¹⁵ For I have given you this as an example, so that just as I have done to you, you should also do. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say to you, There is no servant who is greater than his master; and no apostle who is greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. ¹⁸ I do not say this concerning all of you, for I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹ I tell you now before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives him whom I send, receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ²¹ Jesus said these things, and he was disturbed in spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me. ²² The disciples then looked at each other, because they did not know concerning whom he spoke. ²³ Now there was one of his disciples who was leaning on his bosom, the one whom Jesus loved. ²⁴ Simon Peter winked at to him, to ask him of whom he spoke. ²⁵ So that disciple leaned himself on the breast of Jesus, and said to him, My Lord, who is he? ²⁶ Jesus answered and said, The one for whom I dip bread and give to him. So Jesus dipped the bread, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon of Iscariot. ²⁷ And after the bread, Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him, What you are going to do, do it soon. ²⁸ But no man of those who were sitting at the table understood what he said to him. ²⁹ For some of them thought, because the purse was with Judas, that he ordered him to buy what was needed for the feast; or to give something to the poor. ³⁰ Judas then received the bread and went outside immediately; it was night when he went out. ³¹ Jesus then said, Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified by him. ³² If God is glorified by him, God will also glorify him by himself, and he will glorify him at once. ³³ My sons, I am with you yet a little while, and you will want me. And just as I said to the Jews, Where I go you cannot come; so now I tell you also. ³⁴ A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵ By this every man shall know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. ³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, Our Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered and said to him, Where I go, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later. ³⁷ Simon Peter said to him, My Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will even lay down my life for you. ³⁸ Jesus said to him, Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, The cock shall not crow, until you have denied me three times. ¹⁴ ¹ LET not your heart be troubled; believe in God, and believe in me also. ² In my FatherÆs house there are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and take you to me, so that where I am, you may be also. ⁴ You know where I am going, and you know the way. ⁵ Thomas said to him, Our Lord, we do not know where you are going, and how can we know the way? ⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man comes to my Father except by me. ⁷ If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; from henceforth you know him and you have seen him. ⁸ Philip said to him, Our Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough for us. ⁹ Jesus said to him, All this time I have been with you, and yet you do not know me, Philip? he who sees me, has seen the Father; and how do you say, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am with my Father and my Father is with me? * the words that I speak, I do not speak of myself; but my Father who abides with me, he does these works. ¹¹ Believe that I am with my Father, and my Father is with me; and if not, believe because of the works. ¹² Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes in me, the works which I do he shall do also; even greater than these things he shall do, because I am going to my Father. ¹³ And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it for you, so that the Father may be glorified through his Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me in my own name, I will do it. ¹⁵ If you love me, then obey my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask of my Father, and he will give you another Comforter, to be with you for ever; ¹⁷ Even the Spirit of the truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it has not seen him, and does not know him; but you know him because he abides with you, and is in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans, for I will come to you after a little while. ¹⁹ And the world will not see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also shall live. ²⁰ In that day you will know that I am with my Father, and you are with me, and I am with you. ²¹ He who has my commandments with him and obeys them, he is the one who loves me; he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and reveal myself to him. ²² Judas (not of Iscariot) said to him, My Lord, why is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, He who loves me, keeps my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make a place of abode with him. ²⁴ But he who does not love me, does not keep my word; and this word which you hear, is not mine own, but the FatherÆs who sent me. ²⁵ I have spoken these things to you, while I am with you. ²⁶ But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything, and remind you of everything which I tell you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my own peace I give you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid. ²⁸ You heard that I told you, I am going away, and I will come to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I am going to my Father; for my Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now behold, I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe. ³⁰ Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of this world comes; and yet he has nothing against me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father has commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go away from here. ¹⁵ ¹ I AM the true vine, and my Father is the worker. ² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he cuts out; and the one which bears fruit, he prunes so that it may bring forth more fruit. ³ You have already been pruned because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain with me and I with you. Just as a branch cannot give fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine; even so you cannot, unless you remain with me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains with me and I with him, will bear abundant fruit; for without me you can do nothing. ⁶ Unless a man remains with me, he will be cast outside, like a branch which is withered; which they pick up and throw into the fire to be burned. ⁷ If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, whatever you ask shall be done for you. ⁸ In this the Father will be glorified, that you bear abundant fruit, and be my disciples. ⁹ Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my FatherÆs commandments, and I remain in his love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ There is no greater love than this, when a man lays down his life for the sake of his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do everything that I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth I will not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does; but I have always called you my friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I made it known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I have appointed you, that you also should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever you ask my Father in my name, he will give it to you. ¹⁷ I command these things to you, so that you love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, know well that it has hated me before you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; this is why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I said to you, that no servant is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you for the sake of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would be without sin; but now they have no excuse for their sins. ²³ He who hates me, hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done works before their eyes, such as no other man has ever done, they would be without sin; but now they have seen and hated me and also my Father, ²⁵ So that the word which is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me for no reason. ²⁶ But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from my Father, he will testify concerning me. ²⁷ And you also will testify because you have been with me from the beginning. ¹⁶ ¹ I HAVE spoken these things to you, so that you may not stumble. ² For they will put you out of their synagogues; and the hour will come that whoever kills you, will think that he has offered an offering to God. ³ And these things they will do, because they have not known my Father, nor me. ⁴ I have spoken these things to you, that when their time does come, you may remember them, and that I told you. And these things I did not tell you before, because I was with you. ⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, and yet no one of you asks me, Where are you going? ⁶ But because I told you these things, sorrow has come and filled your hearts. ⁷ But I tell you the truth, It is better for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I should go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he is come, he will rebuke the world concerning sin, concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment. ⁹ Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ Concerning righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you will not see me again; ¹¹ Concerning judgment, because the leader of this world has been judged. ¹² Again, I have many other things to tell you, but you cannot grasp them now. ¹³ But when the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but what he hears that he will speak; and he will make known to you things which are to come in the future. ¹⁴ He will glorify me; because he will take of my own and show to you. ¹⁵ Everything that my Father has is mine; this is the reason why I told you that he will take of my own and show to you. ¹⁶ A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I am going to the Father. ¹⁷ Then his disciples said to one another, What is this that he said to us, A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me; and, because I am going to my Father? ¹⁸ And they said, What is this that he said, A little while? We cannot understand what he talks about. ¹⁹ Jesus knew that they desired to ask him, and he said to them, Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this, that I told you, A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me? ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and wail, and yet the world will rejoice; and you will be sad, but your sadness will be changed into gladness. ²¹ When a woman is in travail, she is depressed, because her day has arrived; but when she has given birth to a son, she no longer remembers her troubles, because of the joy that a male child * is born into the world. ²² So you also are depressed; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no man will take away from you. ²³ In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, that whatever you ask my Father in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full. ²⁵ I have spoken these things in figures; but the time is coming, when I will not speak to you in figures, but will plainly explain to you concerning the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name; and I will not say to you, I will ask the Father concerning you. ²⁷ For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and I came into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father. ²⁹ His disciples said to him, Behold, now you speak plainly, and do not utter a single figure. ³⁰ Now we understand that you know everything; and you need no man to ask you; by this we believe that you have come forth from God. ³¹ Jesus said to them, Believe it. ³² For behold, the hour is coming, and it has now come, when you will be dispersed, every man to his own country, and you will leave me alone; and yet I am never alone, because the Father is with me. ³³ These things I have said to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but have courage; I have conquered the world.