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John

11:1

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Death of Lazarus

1 AND there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, of the town of Mary & Martha her sister.

2 (And Mary was she that anointed our Lord with ointment, & wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

3 His sisters therefore sent to him saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest, is sick.

4 And JESUS hearing, said to them: This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

5 And JESUS loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.

6 As he heard therefore that he was sick, then he tarried in the same place two days:

7 then after this he saith to his Disciples: Let us go into Jewry again.

8 The Disciples say to him: Rabbi, now the Jews sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

9 JESUS answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not: because he seeth the light of this world:

10 but if he 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 sleepeth; but I go that I may raise him from sleep.

12 His Disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall be safe.

13 But JESUS spake of his death; & they thought that he spake of the sleeping of sleep.

14 Then therefore JESUS said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead;

15 and I am glad for your sake, that you may believe, because I was not there: but let us go to him.

16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his condisciples: Let us also go, to die with him.

Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary

17 JESUS therefore came, and found him now having been four days in the grave.

18 (And Bethania was nigh to Jerusalem about fifteen furlongs.)

19 And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

20 Martha therefore when she heard that JESUS was come, went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.

21 Martha therefore said to JESUS: Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

22 But now also I know that what things soever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.

23 JESUS saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.

24 Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection, in the last day.

25 JESUS saith to her: I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live.

26 And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

27 She saith to him: Yea Lord, I have believed that thou art CHRIST the Son of God that art come into this world.

28 And when she had said these things, she went, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Master is come, & calleth thee.

29 She, when she heard, riseth quickly & cometh to him.

30 For JESUS was not yet come into the town: but he was yet in that place where Martha had met him.

31 The Jews therefore that were with her in the house and did comfort her, when they saw Mary that she rose quickly and went forth, followed her, saying: That she goeth to the grave, to weep there.

32 Mary therefore when she was come where JESUS was, seeing him, fell at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

33 JESUS therefore when he saw her, weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, he groaned in spirit, and troubled himself,

34 and said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.

35 And JESUS wept.

36 The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.

37 But certain of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the blind man, make that this man should not die?

Jesus Raises Lazarus

38 JESUS therefore again groaning in him self, cometh to the grave: and it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.

39 JESUS saith: Take away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said to him: Lord, now he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

40 JESUS saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

41 They took therefore the stone away. And JESUS lifting his eyes upward, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

42 And I did know that thou doest always hear me, but for the people that standeth about, have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

43 When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

44 And forthwith he came forth that had been dead, bound feet and hands with winding bands, and his face was tied with a napkin. JESUS said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Many therefore of the Jews that were come to Mary & Martha, & had seen the things that JESUS did, believed in him.

46 And certain of them went to the Pharisees, & told them the things that JESUS did.

47 The chief Priests therefore & the Pharisees gathered a Council, & said: What do we, for this man doeth many signs.

48 If we let him alone so, all will believe in him: & the Romans will come, & take away our place & nation.

49 But one of them named Caiphas, being the high Priest of that year, said to them: You know nothing,

50 neither do you consider: that it is expedient for us that one man die for the people, & the whole nation perish not.

51 And this he said not of himself: but being the high Priest of that year, he prophesied that JESUS should die for the nation.

52 And not only for the nation, but to gather into one the children of God that were dispersed.

53 From that day therefore they devised to kill him.

54 JESUS therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but he went into the country beside the desert unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his Disciples.

55 And the Pasche of the Jews was at hand: & many of the country went up to Jerusalem before the Pasche to sanctify themselves.