John 11

¹And there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, of the town of Mary & Martha her sister.

²(And Mary was she that anointed our Lord with ointment, & wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

³His sisters therefore sent to him saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest, is sick.

⁴And Jesus hearing, said to them: This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

⁵And Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.

⁶As he heard therefore that he was sick, then he tarried in the same place two days:

⁷then after this he saith to his Disciples: Let us go into Jewry again.

⁸The Disciples say to him: Rabbi, now the Jews sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

⁹Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not: because he seeth the light of this world:

¹⁰but if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

¹¹These things he said; and after this he saith to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may raise him from sleep.

¹²His Disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall be safe.

¹³But Jesus spake of his death; & they thought that he spake of the sleeping of sleep.

¹⁴Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead;

¹⁵and I am glad for your sake, that you may believe, because I was not there: but let us go to him.

¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his condisciples: Let us also go, to die with him.

¹⁷Jesus therefore came, and found him now having been four days in the grave.

¹⁸(And Bethania was nigh to Jerusalem about fifteen furlongs.)

¹⁹And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

²⁰Martha therefore when she heard that Jesus was come, went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.

²¹Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

²²But now also I know that what things soever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.

²³Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.

²⁴Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection, in the last day.

²⁵Jesus saith to her: I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live.

²⁶And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

²⁷She saith to him: Yea Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of God that art come into this world.

²⁸And when she had said these things, she went, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Master is come, & calleth thee.

²⁹She, when she heard, riseth quickly & cometh to him.

³⁰For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was yet in that place where Martha had met him.

³¹The Jews therefore that were with her in the house and did comfort her, when they saw Mary that she rose quickly and went forth, followed her, saying: That she goeth to the grave, to weep there.

³²Mary therefore when she was come where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

³³Jesus therefore when he saw her, weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, he groaned in spirit, and troubled himself,

³⁴and said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.

³⁵And Jesus wept.

³⁶The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.

³⁷But certain of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the blind man, make that this man should not die?

³⁸Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the grave: and it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.

³⁹Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said to him: Lord, now he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

⁴⁰Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

⁴¹They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting his eyes upward, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

⁴²And I did know that thou doest always hear me, but for the people that standeth about, have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

⁴³When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

⁴⁴And forthwith he came forth that had been dead, bound feet and hands with winding bands, and his face was tied with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews that were come to Mary & Martha, & had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.

⁴⁶And certain of them went to the Pharisees, & told them the things that Jesus did.

⁴⁷The chief Priests therefore & the Pharisees gathered a Council, & said: What do we, for this man doeth many signs.

⁴⁸If we let him alone so, all will believe in him: & the Romans will come, & take away our place & nation.

⁴⁹But one of them named Caiphas, being the high Priest of that year, said to them: You know nothing,

⁵⁰neither do you consider: that it is expedient for us that one man die for the people, & the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹And this he said not of himself: but being the high Priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

⁵²And not only for the nation, but to gather into one the children of God that were dispersed.

⁵³From that day therefore they devised to kill him.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but he went into the country beside the desert unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his Disciples.

⁵⁵And the Pasch of the Jews was at hand: & many of the country went up to Jerusalem before the Pasch to sanctify themselves.

⁵⁶They sought Jesus therefore; and they communed one with another, standing in the temple: What think you, in that he is not come to the festival day? And the chief Priests & Pharisees had given commandment, that if any man should know where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him.