JOHN 11
The Resurrection of Lazarus
1 Now I was sick a man named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 and Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair.
3 They sent therefore the sisters say to Jesus: Lord, behold, the sick one you love.
4 But Jesus hearing it, said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
7 After that, he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 They said to him: Rabbi, the Jews were trying to stone you, and going there again?
9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If someone walks by day will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
10 but walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light.
11 And having thus spoken, he added, Lazarus, our friend sleeps, but I'll wake it from sleep.
12 They said therefore to him, the disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he will recover.
13 But Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
14 Then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead;
15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, that you may believe; but let us go to him.
16 Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow disciples: Let us also go to die with him.
17 Then when Jesus came, he found him already in the tomb four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs.
19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Martha, as she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him; But Mary stayed at home.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 And even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give.
23 Jesus said to him: Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha said to him: I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he die, yet shall he live;
26 and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 That said, he retired and went to call secretly Mary, her sister, and said to him, The Teacher is here and calls you.
29 When she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing her get up quickly and went out, followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 Having therefore, Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
33 And Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 And said, Where have you laid him? They answered him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him.
37 But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?
38 And Jesus, groaning up again, deeply, came to the tomb; It was a cave, and had a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister, said to him: Lord, already smells bad, because it's been dead for almost four days.
40 Jesus said to him: Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me; but because of the crowd standing around I said it, that they may believe that you sent me.
43 And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
44 The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.
5 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
The Pharisees form counsel to kill Jesus
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.
48 If we let him thus alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
49 One, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing,
50 You do not realize it expedient for you that one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.
51 Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 Since that day, they took counsel to kill him.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there continued with his disciples.
55 Now was the passover of the Jews, and many went up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
56 They sought therefore Jesus, and said one to another, standing in the temple: What think you? He will not come to the party?
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report to the arrest.
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