Iohannem 11
1 Erat autem quidam languens Lazarus a Bethania, de castello Mariae, et Marthae sororum eius.
[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.
2 (Maria autem erat, quae unxit Dominum unguento, et extersit pedes eius capillis suis: cuius frater Lazarus infirmabatur.)
Mary was the woman who [later] poured perfume on the feet of the Lord [Jesus], and then wiped his feet with her hair.
3 Miserunt ergo sorores eius ad eum dicentes: Domine, ecce quem amas infirmatur.
So the two sisters sent [someone to tell] Jesus [about Lazarus], saying, “Lord, the one you love [very much] is very sick.”
4 Audiens autem Iesus dixit eis: Infirmitas haec non est ad mortem, sed pro gloria Dei, ut glorificetur Filius Dei per eam.
[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].”
5 Diligebat autem Iesus Martham, et sororem eius Mariam, et Lazarum.
Jesus loved Martha and her [younger] sister [Mary] and Lazarus.
6 Ut ergo audivit quia infirmabatur, tunc quidem mansit in eodem loco duobus diebus.
But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed [where he was] for two more days.
7 deinde post haec dixit discipulis suis: Eamus in Iudaeam iterum.
But Jesus [wanted to see Lazarus]. So he said to us disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
8 Dicunt ei discipuli: Rabbi, nunc quaerebant te Iudaei lapidare, et iterum vadis illuc?
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]”
9 Respondit Iesus: Nonne duodecim sunt horae diei? Si quis ambulaverit in die, non offendit, quia lucem huius mundi videt:
[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.
10 si autem ambulaverit in nocte, offendit, quia lux non est in eo.
It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
11 Haec ait, et post haec dixit eis: Lazarus amicus noster dormit: sed vado ut a somno excitem eum.
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.”
12 Dixerunt ergo discipuli eius: Domine, si dormit, salvus erit.
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].”
13 Dixerat autem Iesus de morte eius: illi autem putaverunt quia de dormitione somni diceret.
Jesus was speaking [figuratively] about Lazarus’ death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
14 Tunc ergo Iesus dixit eis manifeste: Lazarus mortuus est:
So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 et gaudeo propter vos, ut credatis, quoniam non eram ibi. sed eamus ad eum.
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.”
16 Dixit ergo Thomas, qui dicitur Didymus, ad condiscipulos: Eamus et nos, et moriamur cum eo.
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].”
17 Venit itaque Iesus: et invenit eum quattuor dies iam in monumento habentem.
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.
18 (Erat autem Bethania iuxta Ierosolymam quasi stadiis quindecim.)
Bethany is less than (two miles/three kilometers) from Jerusalem.
19 Multi autem ex Iudaeis venerant ad Martham, et Mariam, ut consolarentur eas de fratre suo.
Many Jews had come [from Jerusalem] to console Martha and Mary over [the death of] their [younger] brother.
20 Martha ergo ut audivit quia Iesus venit, occurrit illi: Maria autem domi sedebat.
When Martha heard [someone say] that Jesus was coming, she went [along the road] to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
21 Dixit ergo Martha ad Iesum: Domine, si fuisses hic, frater meus non fuisset mortuus:
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]!
22 Sed et nunc scio quia quaecumque poposceris a Deo, dabit tibi Deus.
But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask [concerning my brother].”
23 Dicit illi Iesus: Resurget frater tuus.
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will become alive again!”
24 Dicit ei Martha: Scio quia resurget in resurrectione in novissimo die.
Martha said to him, “I know that he will become alive again when all people become alive again on the [Judgment] day.”
25 Dixit ei Iesus: Ego sum resurrectio, et vita: qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet:
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].
Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, [their souls] will not die [forever]. Do you believe that?” (aiōn g165)
27 Ait illi: Utique Domine, ego credidi, quia tu es Christus filius Dei vivi, qui in hunc mundum venisti.
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!”
28 Et cum haec dixisset, abiit, et vocavit Mariam sororem suam silentio, dicens: Magister adest, et vocat te.
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.”
29 Illa ut audivit, surrexit cito, et venit ad eum:
When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 nondum enim venerat Iesus in castellum: sed erat adhuc in illo loco, ubi occurrerat ei Martha.
Jesus had not yet entered the village; he was still at the place where Martha met him.
31 Iudaei ergo, qui erant cum ea in domo, et consolabantur eam, cum vidissent Mariam quia cito surrexit, et exiit, secuti sunt eam dicentes: Quia vadit ad monumentum, ut ploret ibi.
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.
32 Maria ergo, cum venisset ubi erat Iesus, videns eum, cecidit ad pedes eius, et dicit ei: Domine, si fuisses hic, non esset mortuus frater meus.
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!”
33 Iesus ergo, ut vidit eam plorantem, et Iudaeos, qui venerant cum ea, plorantes, infremuit spiritu, et turbavit seipsum,
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.
34 et dixit: Ubi posuistis eum? Dicunt ei: Domine, veni, et vide.
He said, “Where have you buried (him/his body)?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Et lacrymatus est Iesus.
Jesus began to cry.
36 Dixerunt ergo Iudaei: Ecce quomodo amabat eum.
Then [some of] the Jews said, “Look how much he loved Lazarus!”
37 Quidam autem ex ipsis dixerunt: Non poterat hic, qui aperuit oculos caeci nati, facere ut hic non moreretur?
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]”
38 Iesus ergo rursum fremens in semetipso, venit ad monumentum. erat autem spelunca: et lapis superpositus erat ei.
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.
39 Ait Iesus: Tollite lapidem. Dicit ei Martha soror eius, qui mortuus fuerat: Domine, iam foetet, quatriduanus est enim.
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!”
40 Dicit ei Iesus: Nonne dixi tibi quoniam si credideris, videbis gloriam Dei?
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]?”
41 Tulerunt ergo lapidem: Iesus autem elevatis sursum oculis, dixit: Pater gratias ago tibi quoniam audisti me.
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].
42 ego autem sciebam quia semper me audis, sed propter populum, qui circumstat, dixi: ut credant quia tu me misisti.
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.”
43 Haec cum dixisset, voce magna clamavit: Lazare veni foras.
After he said that, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 Et statim prodiit qui fuerat mortuus, ligatus pedes, et manus institis, et facies illius sudario erat ligata. Dixit eis Iesus: Solvite eum, et sinite abire.
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].
45 Multi ergo ex Iudaeis, qui venerant ad Mariam, et Martham, et viderant quae fecit Iesus, crediderunt in eum.
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]).
46 Quidam autem ex ipsis abierunt ad Pharisaeos, et dixerunt eis quae fecit Iesus.
But some of the [others] went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Collegerunt ergo Pontifices et Pharisaei concilium, et dicebant: Quid faciamus, quia hic homo multa signa facit?
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!
48 Si dimittimus eum sic, omnes credent in eum: et venient Romani, et tollent nostrum locum, et gentem.
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!”
49 Unus autem ex ipsis Caiphas nomine, cum esset Pontifex anni illius, dixit eis: Vos nescitis quidquam,
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]!
50 nec cogitatis quia expedit vobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo, et non tota gens pereat.
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.”
51 Hoc autem a semetipso non dixit: sed cum esset Pontifex anni illius, prophetavit, quod Iesus moriturus erat pro gente,
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.
52 et non tantum pro gente, sed ut filios Dei, qui erant dispersi, congregaret in unum.
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].
53 Ab illo ergo die cogitaverunt ut interficerent eum.
So from that day the [Jewish leaders] started to make plans how they could kill Jesus.
54 Iesus ergo iam non in palam ambulabat apud Iudaeos, sed abiit in regionem iuxta desertum, in civitatem, quae dicitur Ephrem, et ibi morabatur cum discipulis suis.
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].
55 Proximum autem erat Pascha Iudaeorum: et ascenderunt multi Ierosolymam de regione ante Pascha, ut sanctificarent seipsos.
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].
56 Quaerebant ergo Iesum: et colloquebantur ad invicem, in templo stantes: Quid putatis, quia non venit ad diem festum?
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?”
57 Dederant autem Pontifices, et Pharisaei mandatum, ut si quis cognoverit ubi sit, indicet, ut apprehendat eum.
