John 11:1-16:33 Now, one Lazarus, of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick.

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now, one Lazarus, of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick. ² (It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with balsam, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³ The sisters, therefore, sent to tell Jesus, Master, lo! he whom you love, is sick. ⁴ Jesus hearing it, said, This sickness will not prove fatal; but conduce to the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it. ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶ Having, then, heard that he was sick, Jesus staid two days in the place where he was. ⁷ Afterward, he said to the disciples, Let us return to Judea. ⁸ The disciples answered, Rabbi, but very lately the Jews would have stoned you, and you would return thither? ⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not: because he sees the light of the world: ¹⁰ but if he walk in the night, he stumbles; because there is no light. ¹¹ Having spoken this, he added, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go to wake him. ¹² Then said his disciples, Master, if he sleep, he will recover. ¹³ Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep. ¹⁴ Then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And on your account I am glad that I was not there, that you may believe; but let us go to him. ¹⁶ Then Thomas, that is, Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us go, that we may die with him. ¹⁷ When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had been already four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Now, (Bethany being about fifteen furlongs from Jerusalem,) ¹⁹ many of the Jews came to Martha, and Mary, to comfort them on the death of their brother. ²⁰ Martha having heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary remained in the house. ²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus, Master, if you had been here, my brother had not died. ²² But I know that even now, whatever you shall ask of God, God will give you. ²³ Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again. ²⁴ Martha replied, I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day. ²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes on me, though he were dead, shall live; ²⁶ and no man who lives and believes on me, shall ever die. Do you believe this? ²⁷ She answered, Yes, Master, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, He who comes into the world. ²⁸ Having said this, she went and called Mary, her sister, aside, saying, The Teacher is come, and calls for you. ²⁹ When Mary heard this, she instantly rose and went to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. ³¹ The Jews, then, who were condoling with Mary in the house, when they saw that she arose hastily, and went out, followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there. ³² Mary being come to the place where Jesus was, and seeing him, threw herself at his feet, saying, Had you be here, Master, my brother had not died. ³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping, who came with her, he groaned deeply, and was troubled, ³⁴ and said, Where have you laid him? They answered, and said, Master, come and see. ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ The Jews, therefore, said, Mark how he loved him. ³⁷ But some of them said, Could not he who gave sight to the blind man, even have prevented this man's death? ³⁸ Jesus, therefore, again, groaning, came to the tomb. It was a cave, the entrance of which was shut up with a stone. ³⁹ Jesus said, Remove the stone. Martha, the sister of the deceased, answered, Sir, by this time, the smell is offensive, for this is the fourth day. ⁴⁰ Jesus replied, Did I not say to you, If you believe, you shall see the glory of God? ⁴¹ Then they removed the stone. And Jesus, lifting up his eyes, said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. ⁴² As for me, I know that thou hearest me always; but I speak, for the people's sake who surround me, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. ⁴³ After these words, raising his voice, he cried, Lazarus, come forth! ⁴⁴ He who had been dead, came forth, bound hand and foot with fillets, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Unbind him, and let him go. ⁴⁵ Many, therefore, of the Jews, who had come to Mary, and seen what he did, believed on him. ⁴⁶ But some of the repaired to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? for this man works many miracles. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on thus, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our place and our nation. ⁴⁹ One of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You are utterly at a loss, ⁵⁰ and do not consider, that it is better for us that one man die for the people, than that the whole nation should be ruined. ⁵¹ 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 that nation only, but that he should assemble into one body the dispersed children of God. ⁵³ From that day, therefore, they concerted how they might destroy him. ⁵⁴ For that reason, Jesus appeared no longer publicly among the Jews, but retired to the country, near the desert, to a city called Ephraim; and continued there with his disciples. ⁵⁵ Meantime, the Jewish passover approached, and many went to Jerusalem from the country, before the passover, to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ These inquired after Jesus, and said, one to another, as they stood in the temple, What do you think? Will he not come to the festival? ⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had issued an order, that whosoever knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might apprehend him. ¹² ¹ Six days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead. ² There they made him a supper, and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of those who were at table with him. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of the balsam of spikenard, which was very valuable, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair, so that the house was filled with the odor of the balsam. ⁴ On which, one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray him, said, ⁵ Why was not this balsam sold for three hundred denarii, which might have been given to the poor? ⁶ This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and carried what was put in it. ⁷ Then Jesus said, Let her alone. She has reserved this to embalm me, against the day of my burial. ⁸ For you will always have the poor among you; but me you will not always have. ⁹ A great number of the Jews, knowing where he was, flocked thither, not on account of Jesus only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ The chief priests, therefore, determined to kill Lazarus also; ¹¹ because he proved the occasion that many Jews forsook them, and believed on Jesus. ¹² On the next day, a great multitude, who were come to the festival, hearing that Jesus was on the road to Jerusalem, ¹³ took branches of palm trees, and went out to meet him, crying, Hosanna! blessed be Israel's King, who comes in the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ Now Jesus having found a young ass, was riding on it, agreeably to what is written, ¹⁵ "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold your King comes, sitting on an ass's colt." ¹⁶ These things the disciples did not understand, at first; but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that thus it had been written concerning him, and that thus they had done to him. ¹⁷ And the people who had been present, attested that he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead. ¹⁸ It was the rumor that he had wrought this miracle, which made the people crowd to meet him. ¹⁹ The Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, Are you not sensible that you have no influence? Behold the world is gone after him. ²⁰ Now, among those who came to worship at the festival, there were some Greeks. ²¹ These applied to Philip, of Bethsaida, in Galilee, making this request, Sir, we wish to see Jesus. ²² Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Jesus. ²³ Jesus answered them, saying, The time is come, when the Son of Man must be glorified. ²⁴ Most assuredly, I say to you, when a grain of wheat is thrown into the ground, unless it die, it remains single; but if it die, it becomes very fruitful. ²⁵ He who loves his life shall lose it; and he who hates his life in this world, shall preserve it eternally in the next. ²⁶ Would any man serve me? let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant also be. If any man serve me, my Father will reward him. ²⁷ Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came on purpose for this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. Then came a voice out of heaven, which said, I have both glorified, and will again glorify it. ²⁹ The people present heard the sound, and said, It thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him. ³⁰ Jesus said, This voice came not for my sake, but for yours. ³¹ Now must this world be judged. Now must the prince of this world be cast out. ³² As for me, when I shall be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself. ³³ This he said, alluding to the death which he was to suffer. ³⁴ The people answered, We have learned from the law, that the Messiah will live forever. How do you say, then, that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? ³⁵ Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light continues with you; walk, while you have it, lest darkness overtake you: for he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes. ³⁶ Confide in the light, while you enjoy it, that you may be sons of light. Having spoken these words, he withdrew himself privately from them. ³⁷ But, though he had performed so many miracles before them, they believed not on him; ³⁸ so that the word of the Prophet Isaiah was verified, "Lord, who has believed out report?" and, "To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" ³⁹ For this reason they could not believe; Isaiah having said, also, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their understanding, that they might not see with their eyes, comprehend with their understanding, and be converted, that I might heal them." ⁴¹ These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke concerning him. ⁴² Nevertheless, there were several, even of the magistrates, who believed on him; but, for fear of the Pharisees, did not avow it, lest they should be expelled the synagogue; ⁴³ for they preferred approbation of men to the approbation of God. ⁴⁴ Then Jesus, raising his voice, said, He who believes on me, believes not on me only; but on him who sent me. ⁴⁵ And he who beholds me, beholds him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me, may not remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ And if any man hear my words, but do not observe them; it is not I, who condemn him; for I came, not to condemn the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who despises me, and rejects my instructions, has that which condemns him. The doctrine which I have taught will condemn him at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I have not said anything from myself; but the Father who sent me, has commanded me what I should enjoin, and what I should teach. ⁵⁰ And I know, that his commandment is eternal life. Whatever, therefore, I say, I speak as the Father has given me in charge. ¹³ ¹ Jesus having perceived, before the feast of the passover, that his time to remove out of this world to his Father, was come; and having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the last. ² Now while they were at the supper, (the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,) ³ Jesus, though he knew that the Father had subjected everything to him, and that he came from God, and was returning to God; ⁴ arose from supper, and laying aside his mantle, girt himself about with a towel. ⁵ Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. ⁶ When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Master, would you wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered, At present you do not comprehend what I am doing; but you shall know hereafter. ⁸ Peter replied, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered, Unless I wash you, you can have no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter said to him, Master, not my feet only; but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus replied, He who has been bathing, needs only to wash his feet; the rest of his body being clean. ¹¹ You are clean, but not all. For he knew who would betray him; therefore he said, You are not all clean. ¹² After he had washed their feet, he put on his mantle, and replacing himself at table, said to them, Do you understand what I have been doing to you? ¹³ You call me the Teacher and the Master; and you say right; for so I am. ¹⁴ If I, then, the Master and the Teacher, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Most assuredly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor is the apostle greater than he who sends him. ¹⁷ Happy are you, who know these things, provided you practice them. ¹⁸ I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen: but the scripture must be fulfilled, "He that eats at my table, has lifted up his heel against me." ¹⁹ I tell you this now, before it happen; that when it happens, you may believe that I am the Messiah. ²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you, he that receives whomsoever I send, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him who sent me. ²¹ After uttering these words, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, saying, Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray me. ²² Then the disciples looked one upon another, doubting of whom he spoke. ²³ Now one of his disciples, one whom Jesus loved, was lying close to his breast: ²⁴ Simon Peter, therefore, made a sign to him, to inquire whom he meant. ²⁵ He, then, reclining on Jesus' bosom, said to him, Master, who is it? ²⁶ Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give this morsel, after I have dipped it. And having dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ After receiving the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly. ²⁸ But none at the table knew, why he gave this order. ²⁹ Some imagined, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had signified to him to buy necessaries for the festival; or, to give something to the poor. ³⁰ When Judas had taken the morsel, he immediately went out: and it was night. ³¹ When he was gone, Jesus said, the Son of Man is now glorified, and God is glorified by him. ³² If God is glorified by him, God also will glorify him by himself, and that without delay. ³³ My children, I have now but a little time to be with you. You will seek me, and what I said to the Jews, Whither I go, you can not come; I say at present to you. ³⁴ A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; that as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know, that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another. ³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, Master, whither are you going? Jesus answered, Whither I am going, you can not follow me now; but afterward you shall follow me. ³⁷ Peter replied, Master, why can not I follow you presently? I will lay down my life for your sake! ³⁸ Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the cock shall not crow, till you have disowned me thrice. ¹⁴ ¹ Let not your heart be troubled; believe on God, and believe on me. ² In my Father's house are many mansions. Were it otherwise, I would have told you. ³ I go to prepare a place for you: and after I shall have gone, and prepared a place for you; I will return and take you with me, that where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And whither I am going, you know, and the way you know. ⁵ Thomas said to him, Master, we know not whither you are going. How, then, can we know the way? ⁶ Jesus answered, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father, but by me. ⁷ Had you known me, you would have known my Father also; and henceforth you know him, and have seen him. ⁸ Philip said to him, Master, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us. ⁹ Jesus replied, Have I been with you so long, and do you not yet know me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father. How do you say, then, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak to you proceed not form myself: as to the works, it is the Father dwelling in me who does them. ¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; if not on my testimony, be convinced by the works themselves. ¹² Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes on me, shall himself do such works as I do; nay, even greater than these shall he do; because I go to my Father, ¹³ and will do whatsoever you shall ask in my name. That the Father may be glorified in the Son, ¹⁴ whatsoever you shall ask in my name, I will do. ¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments; ¹⁶ and I will entreat the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to continue with you forever; ¹⁷ even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can not receive, because it neither sees him, nor knows him; but you shall know him, because he will abide with you, and be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I will return to you. ¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more; but you shall see me; because I live, you also shall live. ²⁰ On that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me; and I in you. ²¹ He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me, will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, Master, wherefore will you manifest yourself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answering, said to him, If a man love me, he will observe my word; and my Father will love him; and we will come to him, and dwell with him. ²⁴ He who loves me not, disregards my words; yet the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me. ²⁵ I tell you these things, while I remain with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I have told you. ²⁷ Peace I leave you; my peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Be not disheartened; be not intimidated. ²⁸ You have heard me say, I go away, and will return to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice that I go to the Father; because my Father is greater than I. ²⁹ This I tell you now, before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ I shall not, henceforth, have much conversation with you; for the prince of the world is coming, though he will find nothing in me; ³¹ but this must be that the world may know that I love the Father, and do whatsoever he commands me. Arise, let us go hence. ¹⁵ ¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. ² Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful. ³ As for you, you are already clean, through the instructions I have given you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I will abide in you; as the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing. ⁶ If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt. ⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you. ⁸ In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love. ¹¹ I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I love you. ¹³ No man has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you. ¹⁶ It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name. ¹⁷ This I command you, that you love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, consider that it hated me, before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, I having selected you from the world, the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours. ²¹ But all this treatment they will give you on my account, because they know not him who sent me. ²² If I had not come, and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He that hates me, hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them such works as none other ever did, they had not had sin; but now they have seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ Thus they verify that passage in their law, "They hated me without cause." ²⁶ But when the Advocate is come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me. ²⁷ And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. ¹⁶ ¹ These things I tell you, that you may not be discouraged. ² They will expel you from the synagogue; nay, the time is coming, when, whosoever kills you, will think he offers sacrifice to God. ³ And these things they will do, because they know not the Father nor me. ⁴ Of these things I warn you now, that when the time shall come, you may remember that I mentioned them to you. I did not, indeed, mention them at the beginning, because I was with you myself. ⁵ And now I go away to him who sent me; yet none of you ask me, Whither do you go? ⁶ But because of those things which I have foretold you, you are overwhelmed with grief. ⁷ Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is for your good that I depart; for if I do not depart, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go away, I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he is come, he will convince the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment: ⁹ concerning sin, because they believe not on me; ¹⁰ concerning righteousness because I go to my Father, and you see me no longer; ¹¹ concerning judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. ¹² I have many things still to tell you, but you can not yet bear them. ¹³ But when the Spirit of Truth is come, he will conduct you into all the truth: for his words will not proceed from himself: but whatsoever he shall have heard, he will speak, and show you things to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me: for he will take of mine and communicate to you. ¹⁵ Whatsoever is the Father's, is mine; therefore, I say that he will take of mine to communicate to you. ¹⁶ A little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me; because I go to the Father. ¹⁷ Some of the disciples said among themselves, What does he mean by this; a little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me; because I go to the Father? ¹⁸ What means this little while, of which he speaks? We do not comprehend it. ¹⁹ Jesus perceiving that they were desirous to ask him, said to them, Do you inquire among yourselves about this that I said, A little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me? ²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ²¹ A woman in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come. But when her son is born, she remembers her anguish no longer; for joy that she has brought a man into the world. ²² So, you, at present, are in grief; but I will visit you again, and your hearts shall be joyful, and none shall rob you of your joy. ²³ On that day, you will put no questions to me. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father, in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete. ²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in figures: the time approaches when I shall no more discourse to you in figures, but instruct you plainly concerning the Father. ²⁶ The you will ask in my name, and I say not, that I will entreat the Father for you: ²⁷ for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and believed that I came from God. ²⁸ From the presence of the Father I cam into the world. Again, I leave the world, and return to the Father. ²⁹ His disciples replied, Now, indeed, you speak plainly, and without a figure. ³⁰ Now we are convinced that you know all things, and need not that any should put questions to you. By this we believe that you came forth from God. ³¹ Jesus answered, Do you now believe? ³² Behold, the time comes, or rather is come, when you shall disperse, every one to his own, and shall leave me alone; yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ³³ These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage! I have overcome the world.