| 章 |
| 11:1 |
And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --
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| 11:2 |
and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --
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| 11:3 |
therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
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| 11:4 |
and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
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| 11:5 |
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
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| 11:6 |
when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
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| 11:7 |
then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'
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| 11:8 |
the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'
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| 11:9 |
Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;
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| 11:10 |
and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
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| 11:11 |
These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'
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| 11:12 |
therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
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| 11:13 |
but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
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| 11:14 |
Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;
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| 11:15 |
and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
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| 11:16 |
therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'
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| 11:17 |
Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
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| 11:18 |
And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
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| 11:19 |
and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
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| 11:20 |
Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
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| 11:21 |
Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
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| 11:22 |
but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'
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| 11:23 |
Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'
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| 11:24 |
Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'
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| 11:25 |
Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
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| 11:26 |
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;
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| 11:27 |
believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
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| 11:28 |
And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'
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| 11:29 |
she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;
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| 11:30 |
and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
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| 11:31 |
the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'
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| 11:32 |
Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'
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| 11:33 |
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,
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| 11:34 |
`Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'
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| 11:35 |
Jesus wept.
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| 11:36 |
The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
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| 11:37 |
and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
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| 11:38 |
Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
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| 11:39 |
Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'
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| 11:40 |
Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'
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| 11:41 |
They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;
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| 11:42 |
and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'
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| 11:43 |
And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'
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| 11:44 |
and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'
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| 11:45 |
Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
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| 11:46 |
but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
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| 11:47 |
the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
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| 11:48 |
if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
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| 11:49 |
and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,
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| 11:50 |
nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
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| 11:51 |
And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
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| 11:52 |
and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
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| 11:53 |
From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
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| 11:54 |
Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.
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| 11:55 |
And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;
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| 11:56 |
they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'
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| 11:57 |
and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.
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