John 11

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1 A certain Lazarus was sick from Bethany, from the village, where Mary and Martha, her sister, lived.
2 Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was [the one] who anointed the Lord with peace and wiped his feet with his hair.
3 The sisters sent to say to Him: Lord! This is the one whom You love, is sick.
4 When Jesus heard this, he said: This illness is not for death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6th When he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
7th After this, he said to the disciples: Let us go again to Judah.
8 The disciples said to Him: Rabbi! How long ago did the Jews seek to stone You with stones, and You again go there?
9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" He who walks in the day does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
10 But whoever walks at night stumbles because there is no light with him.
eleven Having said this, he tells them later: Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep; But I'm going to wake him up.
12 His disciples said: Lord! If he falls asleep, he will recover.
13 Jesus spoke of his death, and they thought that He spoke of an ordinary dream.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead;
15 And I rejoice for you, because I was not there, that you may believe; But let's go to him.
16 Then Thomas, otherwise called Gemini, said to the disciples: "Let us go and we will die with him."

17th When Jesus came, he found that he had been in the grave for four days already.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the stages at fifteen;
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them [in] [sorrow] for their brother.
20 Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him; Mary was at home.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus: Lord! If You were here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that what You ask of God, God will give you.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise up.
24 Martha said to Him: I know that He will rise on the resurrection, on the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; He that believeth in me, though he were dead, will live.
26th And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
27th She says to Him: so, Lord! I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.
28 Having said this, she went and secretly invited Mary, her sister, saying: "The Teacher is here and is calling you."
29 She, as soon heard, hurriedly got up and went to Him.
thirty Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
31 The Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, seeing that Maria hurriedly got up and left, followed her, believing that she had gone to the coffin - to cry there.
32 Mary, when she came to where Jesus was, and saw Him, fell at His feet and said to Him: Lord! If You were here, my brother would not have died.

33 Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who were crying with her, was afflicted with spirit and rebelled
34 And said: where did you put it? They say to Him, Lord! Go and see.
35 Jesus shed a few tears.
36 Then the Jews said: See how He loved him.
37 And some of them said: could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, do so that this one would not die?
38 But Jesus, again grieving inwardly, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay on it.
39 Jesus says: Take away the stone. The sister of the deceased, Martha, says to Him: Lord! Already stinks; For four days, as he is in the tomb.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Did I not say unto thee, that if thou shalt believe, seest the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone [from the cave], where the deceased lay. Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father! I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 I knew that You always hear Me; But he said this to the people standing here, that they might believe that you sent me.
43 Having said this, He cried with a loud voice: Lazarus! Go away.
44 And the deceased came out, entwined on the hands and feet with burial cloths, and his face was tied with a handkerchief. Jesus saith unto them, Unbind him, let him go.

45 Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus had done believed in Him.
46 And some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus did.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered counsel and said: what shall we do? This Man does many miracles.
48 If we leave him this way, then everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take our place and our people.
49 One of them, a certain Caiaphas, being the high priest for that year, said to them: you do not know anything,
50 And you will not think that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, rather than that all the people perish.
51 But he did not say this from himself, but being the high priest for that year, he predicted that Jesus would die for the people,
52 And not only for the people, but for the scattered children of God to be gathered together.
53 From this day they put Him to death.
54 Therefore, Jesus no longer walked clearly between the Jews, but went from there to the country near the desert, into the city called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples.
55 The Passover of the Jews was approaching, and many of the whole country came to Jerusalem before the Passover to be cleansed.
56 Then they were looking for Jesus and, standing in the temple, they said to each other: what do you think? Will He come to the feast?
57 The chief priests and Pharisees gave the command that if anyone found out where He would be, He would declare to take Him.

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