1 N ow a certain man named Lazarus was ill. He was of Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --

2 T his Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

3 S o the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, he whom You love is sick.

therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

4 W hen Jesus received the message, He said, This sickness is not to end in death; but it is to honor God and to promote His glory, that the Son of God may be glorified through (by) it.

and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

5 N ow Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

6 T herefore when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He still stayed two days longer in the same place where He was.

when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

7 T hen after that interval He said to His disciples, Let us go back again to Judea.

then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

8 T he disciples said to Him, Rabbi, the Jews only recently were intending and trying to stone You, and are You going back there again?

the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

9 J esus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? Anyone who walks about in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

10 B ut if anyone walks about in the night, he does stumble, because there is no light in him.

and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

11 H e said these things, and then added, Our friend Lazarus is at rest and sleeping; but I am going there that I may awaken him out of his sleep.

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

12 T he disciples answered, Lord, if he is sleeping, he will recover.

therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'

13 H owever, Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He referred to falling into a refreshing and natural sleep.

but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

14 S o then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead,

Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;

15 A nd for your sake I am glad that I was not there; it will help you to believe (to trust and rely on Me). However, let us go to him.

and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'

16 T hen Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, Let us go too, that we may die along with Him.

therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

17 S o when Jesus arrived, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.

18 B ethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away,

And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

19 A nd a considerable number of the Jews had gone out to see Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

20 W hen Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him, while Mary remained sitting in the house.

Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

21 M artha then said to Jesus, Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

22 A nd even now I know that whatever You ask from God, He will grant it to You.

but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'

23 J esus said to her, Your brother shall rise again.

Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'

24 M artha replied, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

25 J esus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on) Me, although he may die, yet he shall live;

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

26 A nd whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never die at all. Do you believe this?

and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

27 S he said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), the Son of God, Who was to come into the world.

believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

28 A fter she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, privately whispering to her, The Teacher is close at hand and is asking for you.

And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'

29 W hen she heard this, she sprang up quickly and went to Him.

she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;

30 N ow Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the same spot where Martha had met Him.

and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

31 W hen the Jews who were sitting with her in the house and consoling her saw how hastily Mary had arisen and gone out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to pour out her grief there.

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

32 W hen Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw Him, she dropped down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'

33 W hen Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews who came with her sobbing, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

34 A nd He said, Where have you laid him? They said to Him, Lord, come and see.

`Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'

35 J esus wept.

Jesus wept.

36 T he Jews said, See how He loved him!

The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

37 B ut some of them said, Could not He Who opened a blind man’s eyes have prevented this man from dying?

and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

38 N ow Jesus, again sighing repeatedly and deeply disquieted, approached the tomb. It was a cave (a hole in the rock), and a boulder lay against it.

Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

39 J esus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, But Lord, by this time he throws off an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days!

Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

40 J esus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God?

Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

41 S o they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

42 Y es, I know You always hear and listen to Me, but I have said this on account of and for the benefit of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You did send Me.

and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said, that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

43 W hen He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

44 A nd out walked the man who had been dead, his hands and feet wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a napkin bound around his face. Jesus said to them, Free him of the burial wrappings and let him go.

and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'

45 U pon seeing what Jesus had done, many of the Jews who had come with Mary believed in Him.

Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

46 B ut some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

47 S o the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the council (the Sanhedrin) and said, What are we to do? For this Man performs many signs (evidences, miracles).

the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

48 I f we let Him alone to go on like this, everyone will believe in Him and adhere to Him, and the Romans will come and suppress and destroy and take away our place and our nation '> our temple and city and our civil organization].

if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

49 B ut one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, declared, You know nothing at all!

and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

50 N or do you understand or reason out that it is expedient and better for your own welfare that one man should die on behalf of the people than that the whole nation should perish (be destroyed, ruined).

nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

51 N ow he did not say this simply of his own accord; but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,

And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

52 A nd not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting into one body the children of God who have been scattered far and wide.

and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

53 S o from that day on they took counsel and plotted together how they might put Him to death.

From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

54 F or that reason Jesus no longer appeared publicly among the Jews, but left there and retired to the district that borders on the wilderness (the desert), to a village called Ephraim, and there He stayed with the disciples.

Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

55 N ow the Jewish Passover was at hand, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem in order that they might purify and consecrate themselves before the Passover.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

56 S o they kept looking for Jesus and questioned among themselves as they were standing about in the temple '> area], What do you think? Will He not come to the Feast at all?

they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

57 N ow the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it to them, so that they might arrest Him.

and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew, so that they may seize him.