The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 11

¹ Now there was a certain infirm man, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
² Now it was Mary who rubs the Lord with attar and wipes off His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was infirm.
³ The sisters, then, dispatch to Him, saying, "Lord, lo, he of whom Thou art fond is infirm!"
⁴ Yet Jesus, hearing it, said, "This infirmity is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God should be glorified through it."
⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
⁶ As, then, He hears that he is infirm, then, indeed, He remains in the place in which He was, two days.
⁷ Thereupon, after this, He is saying to His disciples, "We may be going into Judea again."
⁸ The disciples are saying to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews now sought to stone Thee, and art Thou going there again?"
⁹ Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone should be walking in the day, he is not stumbling, for he is observing the light of this world.
¹⁰ Yet if anyone should be walking in the night, he is stumbling, for the light is not in him."
¹¹ He said these things, and after this He is saying to them, "Lazarus, our friend, has found repose, but I am going that I should be awakening him out of sleep."
¹² The disciples, then, said to Him, "Lord, if he has repose, he shall be saved."
¹³ Now Jesus had made a declaration concerning his death, yet they suppose that He is saying it concerning the repose of sleep.
¹⁴ Jesus, then, said to them with boldness then, "Lazarus died.
¹⁵ And I am rejoicing because of you, that you should be believing, seeing that I was not there. But we may be going to him."
¹⁶ Thomas, then, who is termed "Didymus," said to his fellow disciples, "We also may be going, that we may be dying with Him."
¹⁷ Jesus, then, on coming into Bethany, found he has been in the tomb four days already.
¹⁸ Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off.
¹⁹ Now many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary that they should be comforting them concerning their brother.
²⁰ Martha, then, as she hears that Jesus is coming, meets Him. Yet Mary was seated in the house.
²¹ Martha, then, said to Jesus, "Lord, if Thou wert here, my brother would not have died.
²² But even now I am aware that whatsoever Thou shouldst be requesting of God, God will be giving to Thee."
²³ Jesus is saying to her, "Your brother will be rising."
²⁴ Martha is saying to Him, "I am aware that he will be rising in the resurrection in the last day."
²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who is believing in Me, even if he should be dying, shall be living.
²⁶ And everyone who is living and believing in Me, should by no means be dying for the eon. Are you believing this?"
²⁷ She is saying to Him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God, Who is coming into the world."
²⁸ And saying this she came away and summons Miriam, her sister, covertly, saying, "The Teacher is present, and is summoning you."
²⁹ Now as she hears, she was roused swiftly and came to Him.
³⁰ Now Jesus had not as yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha meets Him.
³¹ The Jews, then, who are with her in the house and comforting her, perceiving Mary, that she rose quickly and came out, follow her, supposing that she is going to the tomb, that she should be lamenting there.
³² Mary, then, as she came where Jesus was, perceiving Him, falls at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if Thou wert here, my brother would not have died!"
³³ Jesus, then, as He perceived her lamenting and the Jews coming with her lamenting, mutters in spirit, and disturbs Himself.
³⁴ And He said, "Where have you placed him?" They are saying to Him, "Lord, come and see."
³⁵ Jesus weeps.
³⁶ The Jews, then, said, "Lo! how fond He was of him!"
³⁷ Yet some of them said, "Could not this One Who opens the eyes of the blind man, also make it that this man should not be dying?"
³⁸ Jesus, then, again muttering in Himself, is coming to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was laid on it.
³⁹ Jesus is saying, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, is saying to Him, "Lord, he is already smelling, for it is the fourth day."
⁴⁰ Jesus is saying to her, "Did I not say to you that, if ever you should be believing, you should be seeing the glory of God?"
⁴¹ They, then, take away the stone. Yet Jesus lifts up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me.
⁴² Now I was aware that Thou art hearing Me always, but because of the throng standing about I said it, that they should be believing that thou dost commission Me."
⁴³ And, saying these things, He clamors with a loud voice, "Lazarus! Hither! Out!"
⁴⁴ And out came he who had died, bound feet and hands with winding sheets, and his countenance had been bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus is saying to them, "Loose him and let him go!"
⁴⁵ Many of the Jews, then, who come to Mary and gaze at what Jesus does, believe in Him.
⁴⁶ Yet some of them came away to the Pharisees, and told them how much Jesus does.
⁴⁷ The chief priests and the Pharisees, then, gathered a Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing, seeing that this man is doing many signs?
⁴⁸ If we should be leaving him thus, all will be believing in him, and the Romans will come and take away our place as well as our nation."
⁴⁹ Now a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being the chief priest of that year, said to them, "You are not aware of anything,
⁵⁰ neither are you reckoning that it is expedient for us that one man should be dying for the sake of the people and not the whole nation should perish."
⁵¹ Now this he said, not from himself, but, being the chief priest of that year, he prophesies that Jesus was about to be dying for the sake of the nation,
⁵² and not for the nation only, but that He may be gathering the scattered children of God also into one.
⁵³ From that day, then, they consult that they should kill Him.
⁵⁴ Jesus, then, no longer walked with boldness among the Jews, but came away thence into the country near the wilderness, into a city termed Ephraim, and there He remains with His disciples.
⁵⁵ Now near was the Passover of the Jews, and many went up into Jerusalem out of the country, before the Passover, that they should be purifying themselves.
⁵⁶ They, then, sought Jesus, and said, standing with one another in the sanctuary, "What do you suppose? That He may under no circumstances come to the festival?"
⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given directions that if anyone should know where He is, he should be divulging it, so that they should be arresting Him.

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