John 11
Worldwide English (New Testament)
11 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived at Bethany, the home of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the same woman that put oil on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
3 So the sisters sent someone to tell Jesus. They said, `Lord, the one whom you love is sick.'
4 Jesus heard the message. He said, `The man is sick, but he will not die from it. But this will show people that God is great, and his Son also.'
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 When he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two days more.
7 After that, he said to his disciples, `Let us go back again to Judea.'
8 They said, `Master, it is not long since the Jews wanted to kill you with stones. Are you going back there again?'
9 Jesus answered them, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a person walks in the daylight, then he will not fall. He can see by the light that is in the world.
10 But if a person walks at night, he will fall because there is no light for him to see.'
11 After he said this, he said also, `Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I am going to wake him up.'
12 His disciples said, `Lord, if he is sleeping then he will get well again.'
13 But Jesus meant that Lazarus had died. The disciples thought that Lazarus was sleeping to have a rest.
14 Then Jesus told them plainly. He said, `Lazarus is dead.
15 For your sake I am glad that I was not there. You will really believe in me. But come, let us go to him.'
16 Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to the other disciples, `Let us all go and die with Jesus.'
17 When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days.
18 Bethany was only about two miles from Jerusalem.
19 Many Jews had come out to see Martha and Mary. They came to comfort them because their brother had died.
20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary just stayed in the house.
21 Martha said to Jesus, `Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even yet, I know that God will give you anything that you ask for.'
23 Jesus said, `Your brother will rise again.'
24 Martha said, `I know that he will rise when the dead people are raised up on the last day.'
25 Jesus said, `I am the one who will raise people up and give them life. The person who believes in me will live, even though he has died.
26 Anyone who is living and who believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?'
27 She said, `Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ. I believe that you are the Son of God who was to come into the world.'
28 When she had said this, she went back to call her sister. She said quietly, `Mary, the Master has come. He is calling you.'
29 When Mary heard that, she got up quickly and came to him.
30 Jesus was not in the town yet. He was at the same place where Martha had met him.
31 The Jews who were in the house to comfort Mary saw her get up quickly and go out. They went after her. They said, `She is going to the grave to cry.'
32 Mary reached the place where Jesus was. When she saw him, she kneeled down before him and said, `Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.'
33 Jesus saw her crying. He saw the Jews who came with her crying also. Then his heart was troubled very much.
34 `Where have you buried him?' he said. `Come, Lord, and see,' they said.
35 Then Jesus cried.
36 `Look,' the Jews said. `He truly loved him very much!'
37 Then some of them said, `This man made the blind see. Could he not have saved Lazarus from dying?'
38 Jesus' heart was troubled very much again. Then he came to the grave. It was a hole in the side of a large rock. A stone covered the hole.
39 Jesus said, `Take the stone away.' Martha, the sister of the dead man, said, `Lord, he will smell bad by this time. He has been dead four days already.'
40 Jesus said to her, `Did I not tell you that if you believed God you would see that he is great?'
41 So they pushed the stone away from the grave. Jesus looked up and said, `Father, I thank you because you have heard me.
42 I know that you always hear me. But I have said this so that the people who are standing here might believe that you have sent me.'
43 When he had said this, he shouted, `Lazarus, come out!'
44 Out came the dead man! The cloth that they had buried him in was tied around his hands and feet. Another small cloth was tied around his face. Jesus said to the people, `Take off the cloths and free him!'
45 When they saw the things Jesus did, many of the Jews who had come with Mary believed on Him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees met together. They said, `What are we going to do? This man is doing many big works.
48 If we do not stop him, everybody will believe on him. Then the Roman rulers will come and break down our holy town and our nation.'
49 One of them, Caiaphas, was high priest that year. He said to them, `You know nothing.
50 You do not understand. It is better for us if one person dies for the people. Then the whole nation will not be broken down.'
51 He himself did not understand what he was saying. But he was the high priest that year. God spoke through him to say that Jesus should die for those people.
52 Jesus would die, not only for those people, but he would gather together all of God's people who are out in different places.
53 So from that day on they planned to kill Jesus.
54 That is why Jesus did not go among the Jews in the open. But he went to another part of the country, to a town called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
55 The time for the Passover Feast of the Jews was near. Many people from all around the country went to Jerusalem. They had to make themselves clean according to the law before the Passover Feast.
56 They were looking around for Jesus. As they were standing in the temple they talked to one another. They said, `What do you think? Do you think that he will come to the feast?'
57 Both the chief priest and the Pharisees had told the people, `If any man knows where he is, tell us. We want to catch him.'
John 11
New King James Version
The Death of Lazarus
11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of (A)Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (B)It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that he was sick, (C)He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to (D)stone You, and are You going there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? (E)If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the (F)light of this world. 10 But (G)if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus (H)sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”
12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.” 13 However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
16 Then (I)Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
I Am the Resurrection and the Life
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about [a]two miles away. 19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that (J)whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, (K)“I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am (L)the resurrection and the life. (M)He who believes in Me, though he may (N)die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, (O)I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
Jesus and Death, the Last Enemy
28 And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.” 29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but [b]was in the place where Martha met Him. 31 (P)Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, [c]saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she (Q)fell down at His feet, saying to Him, (R)“Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 (S)Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37 And some of them said, “Could not this Man, (T)who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”
Lazarus Raised from the Dead
38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a (U)stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would (V)see the glory of God?” 41 Then they took away the stone [d]from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but (W)because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with (X)graveclothes, and (Y)his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
The Plot to Kill Jesus(Z)
45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, (AA)and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and (AB)told them the things Jesus did. 47 (AC)Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, (AD)“What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
49 And one of them, (AE)Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 (AF)nor do you consider that it is expedient for [e]us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and (AG)not for that nation only, but (AH)also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to (AI)put Him to death. 54 (AJ)Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called (AK)Ephraim, and there remained with His disciples.
55 (AL)And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to (AM)purify themselves. 56 (AN)Then they sought Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that He will not come to the feast?” 57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, that they might (AO)seize Him.
Footnotes
- John 11:18 Lit. 15 stadia
- John 11:30 NU was still
- John 11:31 NU supposing that she was going
- John 11:41 NU omits from the place where the dead man was lying
- John 11:50 NU you
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