Lazarus Dies

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

² (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

³ So the sisters sent word¹ to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴ And when he¹ heard it,² Jesus said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁵ (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

⁶ So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place ⌞where⌟¹ he was two days.

1. Literally “in which”

⁷ Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?”

⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰ But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹¹ He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him.”

¹² So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

¹³ (Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about ⌞real sleep⌟.¹)

1. Literally “the sleep of slumber”

¹⁴ So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

¹⁵ and I am glad ⌞for your sake⌟¹ that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

1. Literally “for the sake of you”

¹⁶ Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)¹ said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”

1. “Didymus” means “the twin” in Greek

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ So when he¹ arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrived”) which is understood as temporal

¹⁸ (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.¹

1. A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)

¹⁹ So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their¹ brother.)

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

²⁰ Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

²¹ So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²² Even¹ now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you.”

1. Some manuscripts have “But even”

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 at the last day.”

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

²⁶ and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die ⌞forever⌟.¹ Do you believe this?”

1. Literally “for the age”

²⁷ She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ And when she¹ had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

²⁹ So that one, when she heard it,¹ got up quickly and went to him.

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁰ (Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)

³¹ So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they¹ saw Mary—that she stood up quickly and went out—followed her, because they² thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“thought”) which is understood as causal

³² Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and¹ saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

1. *Here “and” is supplied because the participle (“saw”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style

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

³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!”

³⁷ But some of them said, “Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something¹ so that this man also would not have died?”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

Lazarus Is Raised

³⁸ Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it.

³⁹ Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.”

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his¹ eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me.

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

⁴² And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it,¹ so that they may believe that you sent me.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴³ And when he¹ had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal

⁴⁴ The one who had died came out, his¹ feet and his² hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

The Jewish Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him.

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

⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

⁴⁸ If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place¹ and our² nation.”

1. Generally understood to be a reference to the Jerusalem temple
2. Literally “both the place and the nation of us”; the possessive pronoun is repeated in the translation (rather than the article) in keeping with English style

⁴⁹ But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all!

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

⁵¹ (Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

⁵³ So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

⁵⁴ So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.

⁵⁶ So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another while¹ standing in the temple courts,² “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?”

1. *Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“standing”) which is understood as temporal
2. *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

⁵⁷ (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it,¹ in order that they could arrest him.)

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation