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拉撒路死了

11 有一个患病的人,名叫拉撒路,住在伯大尼,就是马利亚和她姊姊马大的村庄。 这马利亚就是后来用香膏抹主,并且用头发把主的脚擦干的那人;患病的拉撒路是她的兄弟。 姊妹二人派人到耶稣那里去,说:“主啊,你所爱的人病了。” 耶稣听见,就说:“这病不至于死,而是为了 神的荣耀,使 神的儿子因此得到荣耀。” 耶稣向来爱马大和她的妹妹马利亚,以及拉撒路。 他听说拉撒路病了,仍然在原来的地方住了两天, 然后对门徒说:“我们再到犹太去吧。” 门徒对他说:“拉比,近来犹太人要拿石头打你,你还到那里去吗?” 耶稣说:“白昼不是有十二小时吗?人若在白昼行走,就不会跌倒,因为他看见这世上的光; 10 人若在夜间行走,就会跌倒,因为他没有光。” 11 耶稣说完了这些话,跟着又对他们说:“我们的朋友拉撒路睡了,我要去唤醒他。” 12 门徒说:“主啊,如果他睡了,就会好过来的。” 13 其实耶稣是指着拉撒路的死说的,门徒却以为他是指正常的睡眠说的。 14 于是,耶稣公开地告诉他们:“拉撒路死了。 15 我为你们欢喜,因为我不在那里,是要使你们相信。现在我们到他那里去吧。” 16 那称为“双生子”(“双生子”原文作“低土马”)的多马,对其他的门徒说:“我们也去跟他一同死吧!”

耶稣是复活是生命

17 耶稣到了,知道拉撒路在坟墓里已经四天了。 18 伯大尼靠近耶路撒冷,相距约有三公里。 19 有许多犹太人来到马大和马利亚那里,为了拉撒路的死来安慰她们。 20 马大听见耶稣来了,就去迎接他,马利亚却仍然坐在家里。 21 马大对耶稣说:“主啊,如果你早在这里,我的兄弟就不会死了! 22 就是现在,我也知道无论你向 神求甚么, 神必赐给你。” 23 耶稣对她说:“你的兄弟必会复活。” 24 马大说:“我知道在末日复活的时候,他必会复活。” 25 耶稣说:“我就是复活和生命;信我的人,虽然死了,也要活着。 26 所有活着又信我的人,必定永远不死,你信这话吗?” 27 她说:“主啊,我信;我已经信了,你是基督,是 神的儿子,是那要到世上来的。”

耶稣使拉撒路复活

28 马大说了这些话,就回去叫她妹妹马利亚,暗暗地说:“老师来了,他叫你。” 29 马利亚一听见,就急忙起来,到耶稣那里去。 30 那时,耶稣还没有进入村子,仍然在马大迎接他的地方。 31 那些在房子里和马利亚在一起安慰她的犹太人,见她匆忙地起来出去,就跟着她,以为她要到坟墓那里去哭。 32 马利亚来到耶稣那里,一看见他,就俯伏在他脚前,说:“主啊,如果你早在这里,我的兄弟就不会死了!” 33 耶稣看见她在哭,和她一同来的犹太人也在哭,就心里激动,难过起来, 34 说:“你们把他安放在哪里?”他们说:“主啊,请来看。” 35 耶稣哭了。 36 于是犹太人说:“你看,他多么爱这个人!” 37 他们中间有人说:“他既然开了瞎子的眼睛,难道不能使这个人不死吗?”

38 耶稣又再心里激动,来到坟墓前面。那坟墓是一个洞穴,洞口有块石头堵住。 39 耶稣说:“把这块石头挪开!”死者的姊姊马大对他说:“主啊,已经四天了,他必定臭了。” 40 耶稣说:“我不是对你说过‘如果你信,就必定看见 神的荣耀’吗?” 41 于是他们把石头挪开。耶稣举目向天,说:“父啊,我感谢你,因为你垂听了我, 42 我知道你常常听我,但我说这话,是为了周围站着的群众,叫他们信是你差了我来。” 43 说了这话,就大声呼喊:“拉撒路,出来!” 44 那死了的人就出来,他的手脚都缠着布,脸上裹着巾。耶稣说:“解开他,让他走!”

祭司长等想杀害耶稣

45 有许多到马利亚那里去的犹太人,看见了耶稣所作的事,就信了他。 46 但他们中间有些人到法利赛人那里去,把耶稣所作的事都告诉他们。 47 于是祭司长和法利赛人召开公议会,说:“这个人行了许多神迹,我们怎么办呢? 48 我们若让他这样,所有的人都会信他,罗马人就会来,夺取我们的圣地,除灭我们的民族。” 49 他们当中有一位该亚法,是那年作大祭司的,对他们说:“你们甚么都不知道, 50 也不去想想,一个人代替人民死,免得整个民族灭亡,这对你们是有益的。” 51 他说这话不是由于自己,而是因为他是那年的大祭司,所以预言耶稣要替犹太民族死; 52 不但替犹太民族死,也要把散居各地的 神的儿女招聚成为一体。 53 从那天起,他们就想杀害耶稣。

54 因此,耶稣不再在犹太人中间公开活动,却离开那里,到旷野附近的地方去;到了一座名叫以法莲的城,就和门徒住在那里。

55 犹太人的逾越节快到了,有许多人在过节前从各乡上耶路撒冷去,要在那里洁净自己。 56 他们到处寻找耶稣,站在圣殿里的时候,彼此说:“你们认为怎样?他不会来过节吧?” 57 祭司长和法利赛人早已下了命令:如果有人知道耶稣在哪里,就要前来报告,好去逮捕他。

Jesus Brings Lazarus Back to Life

11 Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived, was sick. (Mary was the woman who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was sick.)

So the sisters sent a messenger to tell Yeshua, “Lord, your close friend is sick.”

When Yeshua heard the message, he said, “His sickness won’t result in death. Instead, this sickness will bring glory to God so that the Son of God will receive glory through it.”

Yeshua loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. Yet, when Yeshua heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Then, after the two days, Yeshua said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, not long ago the Jews wanted to stone you to death. Do you really want to go back there?”

Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day don’t stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10 However, those who walk at night stumble because they have no light in themselves.”

11 After Yeshua said this, he told his disciples, “Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, and I’m going to Bethany to wake him.”

12 His disciples said to him, “Lord, if he’s sleeping, he’ll get well.”

13 Yeshua meant that Lazarus was dead, but the disciples thought Yeshua meant that Lazarus was only sleeping. 14 Then Yeshua told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 but I’m glad that I wasn’t there so that you can grow in faith. Let’s go to Lazarus.”

16 Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, “Let’s go so that we, too, can die with Yeshua.”

17 When Yeshua arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. 18 (Bethany was near Jerusalem, not quite two miles away.) 19 Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

20 When Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went to meet him. Mary stayed at home. 21 Martha told Yeshua, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask him.”

23 Yeshua told Martha, “Your brother will come back to life.”

24 Martha answered Yeshua, “I know that he’ll come back to life on the last day, when everyone will come back to life.”

25 Yeshua said to her, “I am the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die. 26 Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?”

27 Martha said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was expected to come into the world.”

28 After Martha had said this, she went back home and whispered to her sister Mary, “The teacher is here, and he is calling for you.”

29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Yeshua. 30 (Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Martha had met him.) 31 The Jews who were comforting Mary in the house saw her get up quickly and leave. So they followed her. They thought that she was going to the tomb to cry. 32 When Mary arrived where Yeshua was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Yeshua saw her crying, and the Jews who were crying with her, he was deeply moved and troubled.

34 So Yeshua asked, “Where did you put Lazarus?”

They answered him, “Lord, come and see.”

35 Yeshua cried. 36 The Jews said, “See how much Yeshua loved him.” 37 But some of the Jews asked, “Couldn’t this man who gave a blind man sight keep Lazarus from dying?”

38 Deeply moved again, Yeshua went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone covering the entrance. 39 Yeshua said, “Take the stone away.”

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Yeshua, “Lord, there must already be a stench. He’s been dead for four days.”

40 Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see God’s glory?” 41 So the stone was moved away from the entrance of the tomb.

Yeshua looked up and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. 42 I’ve known that you always hear me. However, I’ve said this so that the crowd standing around me will believe that you sent me.” 43 After Yeshua had said this, he shouted as loudly as he could, “Lazarus, come out!”

44 The dead man came out. Strips of cloth were wound around his feet and hands, and his face was wrapped with a handkerchief. Yeshua told them, “Free Lazarus, and let him go.”

The Jewish Council Plans to Kill Jesus

45 Many Jews who had visited Mary and had seen what Yeshua had done believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Yeshua had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council. They asked, “What are we doing? This man is performing a lot of miracles. 48 If we let him continue what he’s doing, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will take away our position and our nation.”

49 One of them, Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year, told them, “You people don’t know anything. 50 You haven’t even considered this: It is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”

51 Caiaphas didn’t say this on his own. As chief priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the Jewish nation. 52 He prophesied that Yeshua wouldn’t die merely for this nation, but that Yeshua would die to bring God’s scattered children together and make them one.

53 From that day on, the Jewish council planned to kill Yeshua. 54 So Yeshua no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he left Bethany and went to the countryside near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

55 The Jewish Passover was near. Many people came from the countryside to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover. 56 As they stood in the temple courtyard, they looked for Yeshua and asked each other, “Do you think that he’ll avoid coming to the festival?” 57 (The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where Yeshua was should tell them so that they could arrest him.)

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany,(A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha.(B) (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)(C) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love(D) is sick.”

When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory(E) so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”(F)

“But Rabbi,”(G) they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you,(H) and yet you are going back?”

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.(I) 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend(J) Lazarus has fallen asleep;(K) but I am going there to wake him up.”

12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.(L)

14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

16 Then Thomas(M) (also known as Didymus[a]) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus

17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.(N) 18 Now Bethany(O) was less than two miles[b] from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.(P) 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.(Q)

21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.(R) 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”(S)

23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection(T) at the last day.”(U)

25 Jesus said to her, “I am(V) the resurrection and the life.(W) The one who believes(X) in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing(Y) in me will never die.(Z) Do you believe this?”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah,(AA) the Son of God,(AB) who is to come into the world.”(AC)

28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher(AD) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.(AE) 31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,(AF) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”(AG)

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved(AH) in spirit and troubled.(AI) 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35 Jesus wept.(AJ)

36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”(AK)

37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man(AL) have kept this man from dying?”(AM)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved,(AN) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.(AO) 39 “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”(AP)

40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,(AQ) you will see the glory of God?”(AR)

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up(AS) and said, “Father,(AT) I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,(AU) that they may believe that you sent me.”(AV)

43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”(AW) 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,(AX) and a cloth around his face.(AY)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,(AZ) and had seen what Jesus did,(BA) believed in him.(BB) 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees(BC) called a meeting(BD) of the Sanhedrin.(BE)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.(BF) 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas,(BG) who was high priest that year,(BH) spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”(BI)

51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.(BJ) 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.(BK)

54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.(BL) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,(BM) many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing(BN) before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus,(BO) and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

Footnotes

  1. John 11:16 Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.
  2. John 11:18 Or about 3 kilometers