²⁴ But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works, neither will he out up by the roots the offspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of him that loveth the Lord.

²⁵ Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same stock.

²⁶ And Solomon had an end with his fathers.

²⁷ And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation,

²⁸ Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who turned away the people through his counsel:

²⁹ And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin, and their sins were multiplied exceedingly.

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27 And David said in his heart: I shall gone day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

² And David arose and went away, both he and the six hundred men that were with him, to Achis the son of Maoch, king of Geth.

³ And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men: every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

⁴ And it was told Saul that David was fled to Geth, and he sought no more after him.

⁵ And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let a place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

⁶ Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg belongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.

⁷ And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, was four months.

⁸ And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

⁹ And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman alive: and took away the sheep and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis.

¹⁰ And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of Ceni.

¹¹ And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

¹² And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his people Israel: therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

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¹⁶ He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask, and life shall be given to him, who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death: for that I say not that any man ask.

¹⁷ All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

¹⁸ We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come: and he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God, and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

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11 Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister.

² (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and 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 it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

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

⁶ When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in the same place two days.

⁷ Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea again.

⁸ The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now 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 that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

¹² His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

¹³ But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.

¹⁴ Then therefore 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: but let us go to him.

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

¹⁷ Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in the grave.

¹⁸ (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)

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

²⁰ Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had 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 whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it 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 at the last day.

²⁵ Jesus said 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 the living God, who art come into this world.

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

²⁹ She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly, and cometh to him.

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

³¹ The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.

³² When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down 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, groaned in the 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 some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man born blind, have caused that this man should not die?

³⁸ Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now 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, saith to him: Lord, by this time 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 up his eyes said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

⁴² And I knew that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who stand 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 presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

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

⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done.

⁴⁷ The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?

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

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

⁵⁰ Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹ And this he spoke 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 together in one the children of God, that were dispersed.

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