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The Raising of Lazarus
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
The Death of Lazarus
Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.
Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.
It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”
But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
he stayed where he was for the next two days.
When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?
Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light.”
but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”
These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!”
The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.
They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.
But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.
So he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.
And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”
And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.
Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.
When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.
Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary
Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.
Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,
and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss.
and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.
When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet him; but Mary sat in the house.
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.”
but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.
Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.
“Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”
Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;
Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?
“Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.”
She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.
Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.”
And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.
So Mary immediately went to him.
She, when she heard [that], rises up quickly and comes to him.
Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him.
When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there.
The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.
When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,
“Where have you put him?” he asked them.
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.
The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!”
The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
And some of them said, Could not this [man], who has opened the eyes of the blind [man], have caused that this [man] also should not have died?
Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
Jesus Raises Lazarus
Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
“Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days [there].
Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?”
Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me.
They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;
You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”
but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.
The Plot to Kill Jesus
Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw this happen.
The Plot to Kill Jesus
Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;
Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;
But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.
If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing
You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.
But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.
and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.
From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.
As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.
Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.
It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began.
But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.
They kept looking for Jesus, but as they stood around in the Temple, they said to each other, “What do you think? He won’t come for Passover, will he?”
They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?