Chapter 11                         

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<		 11:1 Now, there was a certain man ailing, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary, and Martha her sister. 2 This was the Mary who had anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 For that reason, the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” 4 Upon hearing this, Jesus said, “This sickness is not towards death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son out from God might be glorified through it.”

5 Now, Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, still, He remained in the place in which He was two days. 7 Then, after [the two days] He said to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to Him, “Master, just now the Judeans were trying to stone You, and you are going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 If anyone walks in the night, however, he stumbles, because the light is not inside of him.”

11 After saying that, He then said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go that I might awaken him.” 12 His disciples then said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well.” 13 Jesus, however, had spoken of his death, but they thought that He spoke of the rest of sleep. 14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you might believe. But let us go to him.” 16 Thomas, called Didymus, then said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”

17 Having then come, Jesus found that Lazarus had been four days already in the tomb. 18 This was in Bethany, near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away [just under two miles]. 19 Now, many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Mary that they might comfort them concerning their brother.

20 Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus had arrived, went to meet Him, though Mary remained sitting in the house. 21 Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 Nonetheless, I know that even now whatever You might ask God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.” • 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing into Me, even if he should die, he will live; • 26 and everyone living and believing into Me, will never die into the age. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son out from God, the One coming into the world-cosmos.”

28 And having said these things, she went away and called Mary her sister, privately, to whom she said, “The Teacher is come, and He calls for you.” 29 When Mary heard that, she rose up quickly and went towards Him. 30 Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. 31 Also, the Judeans who had been with Mary in the house comforting her, upon seeing that Mary quickly rose up and went out, followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb that she might weep there. 32 Then Mary, when she came to where Jesus was, and seeing Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Judeans who came with her also weeping, He was moved with anger in Spirit and agitated. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” • 35 Jesus wept. 36 The Judeans then said, “Behold, how He loved him!” 37 Some of them, however, said, “This Man who opened the eyes of the blind, was He not able also to have caused that Lazarus should not have died?”

38  Again, Jesus, being deeply angry and indignant inside Himself, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” The sister of the dead man, Martha, said to Him, “Lord, he already stinks, for it is four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 Then after they took away the stone, Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I am aware that You always hear Me; but on account of this crowd all around I said it, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 And having said these things, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” • 44 The one who had been dead came out, his feet and hands still bound with linen strips and a headcloth still bound about his face. Jesus said to them, “Release him and allow him to go.”

45 Many of the Judeans, therefore, who came with Mary, and who saw what He did, believed into Him. 46 Others of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 The chief priests and the Pharisees then gathered a council where they said, “What are we to do? For this man does many signs. 48 If we should let Him alone like this, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and will take us away, both our place and the nation.”

49 A certain one of them, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You  do not know anything, 50 nor do you consider that it is profitable for us that one man should die for the sake of the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 This he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation [], 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God who have been scattered, He might gather together into one.

53 From that day, then, they determined together that they would kill Him. 54 For that reason, Jesus no longer walked openly [x] among the Judeans, but went away from there into the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. And there He stayed with the disciples. 55 Now, it was near the Passover of the Judeans and many went up to Jerusalem out of that region before the Passover so that they might purify themselves. 56 There they sought for Jesus and were saying to one another inside the temple, “What does it seem to you, that He will not come to the feast?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone should know where He was, he must report it, so that they might arrest Him.
 		  
 
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