John 11-12 (Darby Translation)

John 11

 ¹Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.

 ²It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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

 ⁴But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

 ⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

 ⁶When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.

 ⁷Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

 ⁸The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?

 ⁹Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;

 ¹⁰but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

 ¹¹These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

 ¹²The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.

 ¹³But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

 ¹⁴Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.

 ¹⁵And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

 ¹⁶Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.

 ¹⁷Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.

 ¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,

 ¹⁹and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.

 ²⁰Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet him; but Mary sat in the house.

 ²¹Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

 ²²but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.

 ²³Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.

 ²⁴Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.

 ²⁵Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;

 ²⁶and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

 ²⁷She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

 ²⁸And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.

 ²⁹She, when she heard [that], rises up quickly and comes to him.

 ³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him.

 ³¹The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.

 ³²Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

 ³³Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,

 ³⁴and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.

 ³⁵Jesus wept.

 ³⁶The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

 ³⁷And some of them said, Could not this [man], who has opened the eyes of the blind [man], have caused that this [man] also should not have died?

 ³⁸Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

 ³⁹Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days [there].

 ⁴⁰Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

 ⁴¹They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;

 ⁴²but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

 ⁴³And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

 ⁴⁴And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

 ⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;

 ⁴⁶but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

 ⁴⁷The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

 ⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

 ⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

 ⁵⁰nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

 ⁵¹But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

 ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

 ⁵³From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.

 ⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

 ⁵⁵But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

 ⁵⁶They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?

 ⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.

John 12

 ¹Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among [the] dead.

 ²There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

 ³Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

 ⁴One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

 ⁵Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

 ⁶But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].

 ⁷Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

 ⁸for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

 ⁹A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among [the] dead.

 ¹⁰But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,

 ¹¹because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.

 ¹²On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,

 ¹³took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord, the King of Israel.

 ¹⁴And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it; as it is written,

 ¹⁵Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

 ¹⁶[Now] his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.

 ¹⁷The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among [the] dead.

 ¹⁸Therefore also the crowd met him because they had heard that he had done this sign.

 ¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

 ²⁰And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;

 ²¹these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus.

 ²²Philip comes and tells Andrew, [and again] Andrew comes and Philip, and they tell Jesus.

 ²³But Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

 ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.

 ²⁵He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

 ²⁶If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be *my* servant. [And] if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.

 ²⁷Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.

 ²⁸Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify [it] again.

 ²⁹The crowd therefore, which stood [there] and heard [it], said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to him.

 ³⁰Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice come, but on yours.

 ³¹Now is [the] judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out:

 ³²and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me.

 ³³But this he said signifying by what death he was about to die.

 ³⁴The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?

 ³⁵Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

 ³⁶While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.

 ³⁷But though he had done so many signs before them, they believed not on him,

 ³⁸that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

 ³⁹On this account they could not believe, because Esaias said again,

 ⁴⁰He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

 ⁴¹These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

 ⁴²Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess [him], that they might not be put out of the synagogue:

 ⁴³for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

 ⁴⁴But Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me;

 ⁴⁵and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me.

 ⁴⁶I am come into the world [as] light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness;

 ⁴⁷and if any one hear my words and do not keep [them], I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

 ⁴⁸He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

 ⁴⁹For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;

 ⁵⁰and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.