[John 11]

 

             {Joh 11:1-46; Peraea to Bethany, Jan. 30 AD; no parallel.}

             ^11:1 Now a certain one was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ^11:2 Now it was this Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. ^11:3 Therefore, the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.

             ^11:4 But Jesus heard it and said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, in-order-that the Son of God may be glorified through it. ^11:5 Now Jesus loved^* Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ^11:6 Therefore, as he heard that he was sick, then indeed, he remained in the place in which he was for two days. ^11:7 Thereafter, after this time, he says to the disciples, Let us be proceeding into Judea again.

             ^11:8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and are you proceeding-away to there again?

             ^11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world. ^11:10 But if anyone walks 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 has fallen-asleep, but I am traveling in-order-that I may wake him.

             ^11:12 Therefore, the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen-asleep, he will be cured.

             ^11:13 (Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but those men thought that he is speaking concerning the restfulness of sleep.) ^11:14 Therefore, then Jesus spoke to them frankly, Lazarus died. ^11:15 And I rejoice because of you^° that I myself was not there, in-order-that you^° may believe; but let us be proceeding to him.

             ^11:16 Therefore, Thomas, who is called^* Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also be proceeding, in-order-that we may die with him.

 

             ^11:17 Therefore, Jesus went there and found him who has been in the tomb for four days already. ^11:18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, approximately fifteen furlongs away from it; ^11:19 and many from the Jews had come to Martha and Mary and the ones around them in-order-that they may console them concerning their brother. ^11:20 Therefore, Martha, as she heard that Jesus is coming, met with him, but Mary was sitting in the house. ^11:21 Therefore, Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you were here, my brother would have not died. ^11:22 But even now I know that, as many things as you would ask of God, God will be giving to you.

             ^11:23 Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise^* up again.

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

             ^11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. The one believing into me, even if he dies, he will be living; ^11:26 and everyone, the one living and believing into me should never 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 she said these things and went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, and said, The Teacher is here and is summoning you. ^11:29 As that woman heard it, she arises quickly and comes to him. ^11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met with him.)

             ^11:31 Therefore, the Jews who are with her in the house and consoling her, after they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went forth, they followed her, saying, She is proceeding-away to the tomb in-order-that she may weep there.

             ^11:32 Therefore, Mary, as she came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet there^*, saying to him, Lord, if you were here, my brother would have not died.

             ^11:33 Therefore, as Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came together-with her, he moaned deeply in the spirit and was disturbed within himself, ^11:34 and said, Where have you^° placed him?

             They say to him, Lord, come and behold.

             ^11:35 Jesus shed-tears.

             ^11:36 Therefore, the Jews were saying, Behold how he loved him!

             ^11:37 But some out-of them said, Was this one, who opened the eyes of the blind man, not able to do^* something in-order-that this one might not have even died?

             ^11:38 Therefore, Jesus again, moaned deeply in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone was laying upon it. ^11:39 Jesus says, Lift^° up the stone.

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

             ^11:40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, If you believe, you will be seeing the glory of God? ^11:41 Therefore, they lifted the stone where the one who died was laying. Now Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I am giving-thanks to you because you heard me. ^11:42 And I knew, You always hear me. But I said it, because of the crowd that is standing around, in-order-that they should believe, You sent me. ^11:43 And he said these things and cried-out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come-here! Come outside! ^11:44 And he came forth, the one who had died, bound hands and feet with burial wrappings, and his vision had been bound with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose^° him and allow^° him to proceed-away.

             ^11:45 Therefore, many out-of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did^*, believed into him. ^11:46 But some out-of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus did^*.

 

             {Joh 11:47-54; Jerusalem and Ephraim in Judea; no parallel.}

             ^11:47 Therefore, the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered together a council and were saying, What are we doing^* because this man is doing^* many signs? ^11:48 If we should allow him to continue so; all will believe into him. And the Romans will be coming and taking both our place and the nation.

             ^11:49 But a certain one out-of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said to them, You^° know nothing, ^11:50 nor are you^° reasoning that it is advantageous for us that^* one man should die on behalf of the people and that^* the whole nation should not perish. ^11:51 (Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation; ^11:52 and not only on behalf of the nation, but in-order-that he should also gather together into one the children of God who have been scattered.) ^11:53 Therefore, they planned together from that day forth in-order-that they might kill him.

 

             ^11:54 Therefore, Jesus was not walking publicly anymore among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near to the wilderness, into a city called^* Ephraim, and he was staying there with his disciples.

 

             {Joh 11:55-12:11 Bethany March 31- April 1, 30 AD; no parallel.}

             ^11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went-up to Jerusalem out-of the region before the Passover, in-order-that they might purify themselves. ^11:56 Therefore, they were seeking Jesus and were speaking with one another while standing in the temple, What are you^° thinking? He should never come to the feast, or should he? ^11:57 Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment in-order-that, if anyone should know where he is, he should divulge it, ^*that they might arrest him.