| 1 | 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. |
| 53 | From that day therefore they devised to put him to death. |
| 54 | Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but he went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his disciples. |
| 55 | And the pasch of the Jews was at hand; and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to purify themselves. |
| 56 | They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a commandment, that if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him. |
