Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 11)

^11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.^11:2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.^11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.^11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.^11:5 Now Jesus loved* Martha and her sister and Lazarus.^11:6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.^11:7 Then after this he says to the disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.^11:8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you; and do you there again?^11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.^11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.^11:11 He spoke these things and he says to them after this, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.^11:12 The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover.^11:13 Now Jesus had spoken about his death: but they thought that he spoke about taking rest in sleep.^11:14 Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead.^11:15 And I rejoice because of you* that I was not there, to the intent you* may believe; nevertheless let us go to him.^11:16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

^11:17 Therefore when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.^11:18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;^11:19 and many of the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.^11:20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.^11:21 Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.^11:22 And even now I know that, whatever you will ask of God, God will give you*.^11:23

Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise again.

^11:24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

^11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he who believes in me, though he die, yet he will live;^11:26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will by no means die, forever. Do you believe this?

^11:27 She says to him, Yes, Lord: I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world.^11:28 And when she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and is calling you*.^11:29 And she, when she heard it, arose quickly and went to him.^11:30 (Now Jesus hadwas not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)^11:31 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, saying that she was going to the tomb to weep there.^11:32 Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died.

^11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed in the spirit and was disturbed,^11:34 and said, Where have you* laid him?

They say to him, Lord, come and see.^11:35 Jesus wept.^11:36 The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!^11:37 But some of them said, Was this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, not able to do something also in order that this man should not have died?

^11:38 Jesus therefore again sighing in himself comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone lay against it.^11:39 Jesus says, You* take away the stone.

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, says to him, Lord, already the body stinks from decay; for* it is four days old.

^11:40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you should see the glory of God?

^11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I thank you that you heard me.^11:42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the crowd who is standing around I said it, that they may believe that you did send me.^11:43 And when he had spoken these things, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come outside.^11:44 He who was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and allow him to go.

^11:45 Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld what he did, believed in him.^11:46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

^11:47 The high-priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What do we do because this man does many signs?^11:48 If we allow him thus: all men will believe in him. And the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

^11:49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high-priest that year, said to them, You* know nothing at all,^11:50 nor do you* reason that it is advantageous for you* that one man should die on behalf of the people and that the whole nation should not perish.^11:51 Now this he said not of himself: but he being high-priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;^11:52 and not on behalf of the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.^11:53 So from that day forth they took counsel that they might kill him.

^11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and he stayed there with the disciples.^11:55 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.^11:56 They sought therefore for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, What do you* think? He will by no means come to the feast, or will he?^11:57 Now the high-priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if anyone knows where he was, he should disclose it, that they might take him.