John 11
1 [One time] there was a man whose name was Lazarus who was [very] sick. He lived in Bethany [village], where his [older] sisters Mary and Martha also lived.
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 [They hoped that Jesus would come], but when Jesus heard the message, he said, “His being sick will not end in his dying. Instead, it will result in [people realizing] how great God is, and that I, God’s son, may be honored {that people may honor me, God’s son}, because of [what I will do].”
But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
5 Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.
7 But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
Then after this he saith to the disciples, Let us go into Judæa again.
8 We said, “Teacher, just a short while ago the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] wanted to [kill you by] throwing stones at you. So ([we think that you should not] go back there again!/[are you sure that you want to] go back there again?) [RHQ]”
The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
9 [To show us that nothing bad could happen to him until the time that God had chosen] [MET], Jesus replied, “There are [RHQ] twelve hours in the daytime, [which is enough time to do what God wants us to do]. People who walk in the daytime will not stumble [over things they cannot see], because they see things by the light from the sun.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10 It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.
11 After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”
These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 So we said to him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. [So you do not need to risk your life by going there].”
The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover.
13 Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.
14 So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 But for your sake I am glad that I was not there [when he died], because I want you to believe [more firmly that I] ([am the Messiah/came from God]). So now, [instead of staying here], let’s go to him.”
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16 Then Thomas, who was {whom they} called ‘The Twin’, said to the rest of us disciples, “Let’s all go, so that we may die with Jesus [when his enemies kill him].”
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17 When we arrived [close to Bethany], someone told Jesus that Lazarus [had died and had been buried and his body had] been in the tomb for four days.
So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
18 Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
19 Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
20 When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.
21 When Martha [got to where Jesus was], she said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died [because you would have healed him]!
Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
And even now I know that, whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the one who [enables people to] become alive again and who [causes people to] live [eternally]. Those who believe in me, even if they die, will live [again].
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;
26 Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this? (aiōn g165)
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord! I believe that you are the Messiah, (the Son of God/the man who is also God). You are the one [God promised to send] into the world!”
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, [even] he that cometh into the world.
28 After she said that, she returned [to the house] and took her [younger] sister, Mary, aside and said to her, “The Teacher is close [to our village], and he wants to talk to you.”
And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee.
29 When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him.
30 Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)
31 The Jews who were in the house with Mary, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go outside. So they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb [where they had buried Lazarus], in order to cry there.
The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there.
32 When Mary got to where Jesus was and saw him, she prostrated herself at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my [younger] brother would not have died!”
Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and saw that the Jews who had come with her were also crying, he was very angry [that Satan had caused Lazarus to die] (OR, very troubled) and disturbed in his spirit.
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews [also] weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
and said, Where have ye laid him? They say unto him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus began to cry.
Jesus wept.
36 Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
37 But some others said, “He enabled a blind man to see. So (he should have been able to [heal this man so that] he did not die!/why did he not [heal this man so that] he did not die?) [RHQ]”
But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?
38 Within himself Jesus was again very angry [about Lazarus dying] (OR, very troubled). He came to the tomb. It was a cave. The entrance had been covered with a large stone.
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone!” Martha, [who, as I mentioned before, was an older] sister of the man who had died, said, “Lord, his [body] has been [in the tomb] for four days, so now there will be a bad smell!”
Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been [dead] four days.
40 Jesus said to her, “I told [RHQ] you that if you believed [in] ([me/what I can do]), you would see how great God is! Have [you forgotten that]?”
Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up [toward heaven] and said, “My Father, I thank you that you heard me [when I prayed about this earlier].
So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.
42 I know that you always hear me [when I pray]. But instead [of just praying silently], I said that for the sake of the people who are standing here. I want them to believe that you sent me.”
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
43 After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 The man who [had been] dead came out! The strips of cloth were still wrapped around his [hands and feet], and a cloth was still around his face, [but he came out]! Jesus said to them, “Take off the cloths so that he can walk easily!” [So they did that].
He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 As a result, many of the Jews who had come to [see] Mary and who had seen what Jesus did, believed that he ([was the Messiah/had come from God]).
Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him.
46 But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered all the members of the [Jewish] Council together. They started saying [to each other], “What are we going to do [about Jesus]? He is performing many miracles!
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
48 If we allow him to keep [doing this], everyone will believe (in him/that he [is the Messiah]), [and they will make him their king]. Then the Roman [army] will come and destroy our Temple and our whole nation of Israel!”
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
49 One of the [Jewish Council] members was Caiaphas. He was the Jewish high priest that year. [Hinting that they should get rid of Jesus], he said to them, “You [talk as though you] do not know anything [HYP]!
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50 You do not realize that it would be much better for us if one man died for the sake of the people rather than that [the Romans kill] all the [people of our Jewish] nation.”
nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 He said that, not because he thought of it himself. Instead, since he was the high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the whole [Jewish] nation.
Now this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
52 But he was also prophesying that Jesus would die, not just for the Jews, but for all the people living in other lands who [would belong] to God, in order that he would unite [all of them into] one [group].
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54 Because of that, Jesus no longer traveled around publicly among the Jewish people. Instead, he left [Jerusalem, along] with us disciples, and went to a village called Ephraim, in an area near the desolate region. We stayed there [for a while].
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover [celebration], many [Jews] went up to Jerusalem from other places in the country. They went there to perform the rituals to make themselves acceptable [to God] before the Passover [celebration started].
Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.
56 The Jewish chief priests and Pharisees issued an order that if anyone found out where Jesus was, that person should report it to them, in order that they could seize him. [So the people thought that Jesus would] probably [not dare to come to the celebration]. But they kept looking for him, and as they were standing in the Temple [courtyard] they were saying to each other, “What do you think? He will not come to the celebration, will he?”
They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.
