John 11

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1 Certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village [where they lived] Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was [the one] who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair.
3 So the sisters sent to him, saying: Lord! behold, he whom you love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God may be glorified through it the Son of God.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 When he heard that he was sick, he abode two days in the place where he was.
7 After that, he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 The disciples said to Him, Rabbi! Jews now sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?
9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? who walks by day will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
10 and who walks by night that he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
eleven Having said this, they said then: Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I'm going to wake him.
12 His disciples said: O Lord! if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought he meant natural sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead;
15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe; But let us go to him.
16 Then Thomas, called Didymus, said to his disciples: Let us also go that we may die with him.

17 Jesus came, he found that he had been four days in the tomb.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them [in] [Print] their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; Mary sat at home.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord! if you had been here, not my brother died.
22 But now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that the rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life; believeth in me, though he were dead, 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, come into the world.
28 Having said this, she went and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, The Teacher is here and is calling for you.
29 As soon as she heard that, she got up and went to him.
thirty Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha had met him.
31 The Jews who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb - to weep there.
32 Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him: Lord! if you had been here, not my brother died.

33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled
34 and I said, Where have you laid him? They say to him: My Lord! Come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him.
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man from dying?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus says: Take away the stone. The sister of the deceased, Martha saith unto him, O Lord! already stinks; For four days, it in a tomb.
40 Jesus saith to her: Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone [from the place] where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father! I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me; but he said [these things] to the people standing here, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 Having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! come forth.
44 And the dead man came out, entwined by hand and foot with linen cloths, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

45 Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What do we do? This man doeth many miracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.
49 One of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing,
50 Nor consider that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.
51 This spake he not of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the people,
52 and not for the nation only, but that the scattered children of God gather together.
53 From that day, they put him to death.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55 Passover of the Jews, and many of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
56 Therefore they sought Jesus, and stood in the temple, saying to one another: What do you think? Did He not come to the feast?
57 The chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that if any man knew where he were, he would have announced they might take him.

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