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| 1 | And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister -- |
| 2 | and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing -- |
| 3 | therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;' |
| 4 | and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.' |
| 5 | And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus, |
| 6 | when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days, |
| 7 | then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;' |
| 8 | the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!' |
| 9 | Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; |
| 10 | and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.' |
| 11 | These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' |
| 12 | therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;' |
| 13 | but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh. |
| 14 | Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died; |
| 15 | and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;' |
| 16 | therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,' |
| 17 | Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb. |
| 18 | And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off, |
| 19 | and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother; |
| 20 | Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house. |
| 21 | Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died; |
| 22 | but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;' |
| 23 | Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.' |
| 24 | Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;' |
| 25 | Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; |
| 26 | and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age; |
| 27 | believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.' |
| 28 | And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;' |
| 29 | she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him; |
| 30 | and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him; |
| 31 | the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.' |
| 32 | Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;' |
| 33 | Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, |
| 34 | `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;' |
| 35 | Jesus wept. |
| 36 | The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!' |
| 37 | and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?' |
| 38 | Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it, |
| 39 | Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;' |
| 40 | Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?' |
| 41 | They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me; |
| 42 | and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.' |
| 43 | And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;' |
| 44 | and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.' |
| 45 | Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him; |
| 46 | but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did; |
| 47 | the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs? |
| 48 | if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.' |
| 49 | and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, |
| 50 | nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.' |
| 51 | And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation, |
| 52 | and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one. |
| 53 | From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him; |
| 54 | Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples. |
| 55 | And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves; |
| 56 | they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?' |
| 57 | and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.
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